House Topical

Abortion (8 Bills)HB 2083 - Relating to the care of aborted fetuses HB 2240 - Requiring physicians performing abortions take steps designed to save the life of any aborted live fetus HB 2242 - Requiring abortion facilities to have certain written policies and procedures HB 2243 - Requiring that abortions be performed in hospitals or by physicians with admitting privileges to a hospital within the local servi HB 2364 - The Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act HB 2371 - Prohibiting the performance of any abortion when the woman seeking it is doing so solely on account of the gender of the fetus HB 2375 - No State-Funded Transportation for Abortion Act HB 2482 - Prohibiting school employees from promoting abortion HB 3081 - Preventing taxpayer subsidization of health insurance covering elective abortions HB 3103 - Making it illegal to transport a minor across state lines to obtain an abortion without written consent of both parents HB 4311 - Preventing taxpayer subsidization of health insurance covering elective abortions HB 4489 - Preventing taxpayer subsidization of health insurance covering elective abortions HB 4588 - Protecting unborn children who are capable of experiencing pain by prohibiting abortion after twenty weeks HB 4593 - Women's Health Protection Act

Actions and Suits (39 Bills)HB 2285 - Providing immunity from civil liability hospital volunteers who in good faith render emergency care at a hospital HB 2364 - The Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act HB 2757 - Private cause of action for the humane destruction of a dog HB 2972 - Providing for structured settlements for minors who are injured or otherwise suffer a loss HB 2985 - Authorizing attorney fees and costs to the prevailing party in a court case in which adverse possession is asserted HB 2989 - Creating a system for the bifurcation for trial of claims for compensatory and exemplary damages HB 3067 - Relating to limitations of actions and suits HB 4001 - Government Fraud Prevention Act HB 4143 - Act to Stop Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (SLAPPs) HB 4220 - Relating to waiver of jury trial in claims arising from consumer transactions HB 4426 - Relating to contested cases HB 4427 - Relating to hearings before the Office of Administrative Hearings HB 4493 - Repealing section of code that determines venue for certain suits and actions in claims due and against the state

Air Quality (12 Bills)HB 2044 - Relating to air pollution control HB 2111 - Employing best available control technology to control air pollution HB 2304 - Adding oil and gas facilities, wells, pipelines and tanks to the coordinated statewide program of air pollution prevention HB 3034 - Requiring underground mines fire boss examinations include examining the air quantity HB 4346 - Establishing separate standards of performance for carbon dioxide emissions

Alcohol (13 Bills)HB 2051 - Requiring a preliminary breath analysis for the purpose of determining the blood alcohol content of a surviving driver HB 2097 - Providing for career development and establishing a pay scale for Alcohol Beverage Commission inspectors, enforcement agents and s HB 2356 - Prohibiting the sale of beer and wine at self-scan registers HB 2500 - Increasing the penalty for driving under the influence causing death HB 2501 - Creating the West Virginia Addictions Treatment and Recovery Fund HB 2720 - Requiring the closing hours of private clubs to be two o'clock a.m. HB 2834 - Exempting valid nonprofit organizations from licensing requirements of the West Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Authority duri HB 2991 - Providing that a wine retailer may be licensed as a retail dealer in nonintoxicating beer for the limited purpose of selling nonin HB 3004 - Increasing the percentage a liquor retail licensee must charge licensed clubs and the general public HB 3141 - Providing consistency for the location of the Alcohol Beverage Control Administration's appeal hearings HB 4241 - Requiring employers subject to the jurisdiction of the Office of Miner's Health, Safety and Training to implement an alcohol abuse HB 4292 - Funding for substance abuse services through increased taxes on beer, wine and liquor HB 4402 - Providing a procedure for the conditional discharge for first offense underage purchase, consumption, sale, service or possession HB 4412 - Relating to special one-day licenses for charitable events to sell nonintoxicating beer or wine HB 4436 - Providing exceptions to the definition of public place HB 4454 - Relating to the sale of alcoholic beverages on Sundays by private licensees HB 4455 - Relating to the sale of wine and alcoholic liquors by licensed wineries, farm wineries, distilleries and mini-distilleries HB 4529 - Relating to the sale of wine HB 4549 - Clarifying the regulation of nonintoxicating beer brewers and distributors, agreements, networks, products, brands and extensions HB 4602 - Relating to the powers and authority of state and local law enforcement to enforce underage drinking laws at private clubs

Animals (19 Bills)HB 2112 - Prohibiting the use of prophylactic feeding of antibiotics to livestock HB 2115 - Relating to the purchase and sale of dogs HB 2301 - Prohibiting declination or termination of property insurance based solely upon a home owner's possession of a certain breed of dog HB 2387 - Relating to reasonable accommodations under the West Virginia Fair Housing Act for persons with disabilities who need assistive a HB 2757 - Private cause of action for the humane destruction of a dog HB 2794 - Prohibiting declination or termination of property insurance based solely upon a home owner's possession of a certain breed of dog HB 4218 - Permitting counties to adopt certain ordinances relating to dogs and cats HB 4273 - Permitting co-owners of cows to receive raw milk from those cows HB 4286 - Captive Cervid Farming Act HB 4293 - Regulating the importation and possession of certain injurious aquatic species HB 4300 - Creating a State Animal Abuse Registry HB 4356 - Creating a West Virginia personal income tax modification reducing federal adjusted gross income for persons who choose to spay or HB 4378 - Relating to permits to kill deer or other wildlife causing damage to cultivated crops HB 4393 - Creating the Dangerous Wild Animals Act HB 4511 - Distributing money that was set aside from the West Virginia Greyhound Breeder Development Fund

Appropriations (10 Bills)HB 2052 - Prohibiting the naming of a publicly funded building, road, structure or project for a living elected public official HB 2581 - Requiring that a sum certain be deposited into the Education Improvement Fund for appropriation by the Legislature HB 3082 - Providing a limit on consulting fees HB 4015 - Budget Bill, making appropriations of public money out of the treasury in accordance with section fifty-one, article six of the Co

Appropriations-Supplemental (36 Bills)HB 2236 - Providing a salary supplement for providers of medicaid eligible services in the public schools HB 2359 - Relating to the Public Employees Retirement System and the Teachers Retirement System; and providing a one-time supplement for ann HB 4176 - Making a supplementary appropriation to the Department of Health and Human Resources, Division of Human Services HB 4177 - Making a supplementary appropriation to various agencies HB 4178 - Making a supplementary appropriation to the Department of Commerce, WorkForce West Virginia HB 4179 - Expiring funds to the unappropriated surplus balance in the State Fund, General Revenue HB 4180 - Supplementing, amending, decreasing, adding a new item, and expiring items of appropriation in certain accounts HB 4181 - Making a supplementary appropriation to the Division of Natural Resources, and to the Bureau for Senior Services HB 4182 - Supplementing, amending, increasing, decreasing, and adding items of appropriations in various accounts HB 4183 - Supplementing, amending, decreasing, and increasing items of the existing appropriations from the State Road Fund to the Departmen

Athletics (1 Bills)HB 2002 - Providing for the use of neck braces by football players HB 2190 - Requiring the West Virginia Secondary School Activities Commission to propose legislative rules concerning concussions HB 2326 - Relating to persons who do not qualify for professional certificates who are issued certificates to serve in the public schools as HB 2526 - Allowing for the participation of home schooled students in certain secondary school activities HB 2999 - Prohibiting members of the state Athletic Commission from judging or refereeing any professional boxing, full contact boxing or mi HB 4230 - Relating to the secondary schools athletic commission HB 4448 - Changing the composition of the State Athletic Commission

Attorney General (6 Bills)HB 4490 - Attorney General Ethics and Accountability Act HB 4596 - Continuing the fraud control unit in the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit

Attorneys (6 Bills)HB 2155 - Making grants from state and other funds to provide civil legal services to low income persons HB 2298 - Providing guidance for prosecuting attorneys in cases involving abused and neglected children HB 2342 - Permitting the issuance of a barrister's certificate to teach course specific curricula in public schools HB 2438 - Certified Legal Assistant Act HB 2788 - Requiring that all attorneys employed by the State of West Virginia in legal positions paying $100,000 or more must have a license HB 2985 - Authorizing attorney fees and costs to the prevailing party in a court case in which adverse possession is asserted HB 4143 - Act to Stop Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (SLAPPs) HB 4565 - Requiring the circuit court , when appointing counsel for alleged protected persons, to make appointments from a listing of all i

Audits/Auditing (33 Bills)HB 2041 - Changing the time for periodic valuations and assessments of real and personal property HB 4219 - Auditing the Division of Highways HB 4466 - Requiring that the Legislative Auditor conduct audits of all spending units

Aviation (13 Bills)HB 2900 - Requiring regional airport authority board members to include persons of area expertise HB 2997 - Prohibiting the use of unmanned aircraft HB 4216 - Adding aircraft operations on private airstrips and farms to the definition of recreational purpose HB 4324 - Clarifying how members of regional airport authority boards are to be allocated HB 4562 - Changing the manner members are appointed to the Eastern West Virginia Regional Airport Authority

Banks and Banking (23 Bills)HB 2081 - Making electronic payments subject to the same fees as are currently permitted for returned checks HB 2346 - The Uniform Debt Management Services Act HB 2412 - Ensuring that borrowers are provided accurate notice of their right to cure a default on any installment or other secured obligati HB 4290 - Revising the regulatory structure of money transmitters and other entities HB 4397 - Relating to recovery of service charges and fees charged to the Tax Commissioner by financial institutions HB 4584 - State Bank of West Virginia

Boards and Commissions (6 Bills)HB 2017 - Providing nonsupervisory employees of the West Virginia State Board of Education with the same protections against summary dismiss HB 2039 - Giving the Insurance Commissioner the power to regulate and penalize self-insured employers HB 2045 - Authorizing the Governor to appoint an additional member to the Surface Mine Board that represents the interest of labor HB 2053 - Requiring county boards of education to employ a certified library media specialist in each county school HB 2055 - Increasing the amount of mine subsidence insurance reinsured by the board of risk management HB 2107 - Exempting county school boards of education school buses from paying tolls for transit over the West Virginia Turnpike or any park HB 2151 - Requiring the West Virginia Commissioner of Highways to use recycled materials in construction or maintenance of roads and highway HB 2170 - Clarifying the law governing the duties of professional licensing boards HB 2178 - Authorizing licensing boards to require applicants to submit to criminal background checks HB 2329 - Relating to the use of personal leave days by a surviving spouse of a deceased employee of a school board HB 2382 - Relating to the Fire Prevention and Control Act HB 2408 - Requiring all state boards, commissions, committees or councils to be gender balanced and to have proportionate representation of HB 2440 - Adopting guidelines to permit pharmacists to prescribe medications HB 2584 - Relating to licensing board accounts HB 2743 - Consolidating purchasing by county boards of education HB 2775 - Abolishing the Board of Barbers and Cosmetologists HB 2790 - Relating to public service district board members HB 2821 - Relating to the Board of Barbers and Cosmetologists HB 2900 - Requiring regional airport authority board members to include persons of area expertise HB 2905 - Establishing anesthesia patient safety standards for office-based surgery HB 2937 - Authorizing a county school board to adopt a policy that allows an inspirational message HB 2955 - Traumatic Brain Injury Services Commission HB 2957 - The County Home Rule Pilot Program HB 2963 - Providing educators released time to serve on county commissions HB 3144 - Relating to supervision of works by a sanitary board HB 4124 - Relating to required orientation sessions for state licensing boards HB 4128 - Requiring boards of examination or registration to maintain a list of disciplinary actions on a public access website HB 4131 - Requiring certain boards of examination or registration to conduct a nationwide criminal background check on all applicants HB 4149 - Allowing members of the Board of Public Works to be represented by designees and to vote by proxy HB 4171 - Requiring local governmental bodies to approve rules promulgated by local boards of health HB 4236 - Sexual assault nurse examination network HB 4260 - Eliminating unnecessary boards HB 4305 - Relating to the requirements of members of a building commission board be from the same political party HB 4313 - Relating to powers and duties of the parole board HB 4321 - Requiring written notice from public service boards to users of delinquency and date of termination and discontinuance of service HB 4336 - Relating to state control of county schools HB 4448 - Changing the composition of the State Athletic Commission HB 4492 - Relating to investment of moneys by the West Virginia Investment Management Board HB 4538 - Relating to the Board of Dentistry HB 4543 - Relating to the board of Funeral Service Examiners HB 4574 - Authorizing the Board of Registration for Professional Engineers to renew certificates on a biennial basis HB 4597 - Relating to the State Board of Education HB 4614 - Establishing the West Virginia Sentencing Commission

Bonds (2 Bills)HB 2020 - Relating to conditions of bond for defendants in cases of crimes between family or household members HB 2061 - Requiring operators to post a bond for each well and to condition the release of the bond HB 2093 - Requiring the Commissioner of Highways to require bonds be posted in connection with major construction, mineral extraction and in HB 2166 - Modifying the bonding requirement for closing-out sales HB 2233 - Relating to the School Building Authority HB 2988 - Providing the West Virginia Courthouse Facilities Improvement Authority with the ability to issue bonds HB 4222 - Providing the Parkways Authority with the power to issue $500 million worth of bonds

Buildings (3 Bills)HB 2052 - Prohibiting the naming of a publicly funded building, road, structure or project for a living elected public official HB 2156 - Providing criminal penalties for the intentional defacement of public and private property due to graffiti HB 2200 - Energy Efficient Building Act HB 2233 - Relating to the School Building Authority HB 2416 - Authorizing the School Building Authority to award grants or moneys to county and local library boards in connection with public l HB 2449 - Requiring a landlord address issues of the accumulation of moisture and the growth of mold HB 2576 - Repealing requirements that prevailing wages be paid in connection with the construction of public improvements HB 2752 - Exempting construction performed on behalf of educational authorities from prevailing wage requirements HB 2895 - Requiring display of POW/MIA flag on county courthouses and other government buildings HB 2988 - Providing the West Virginia Courthouse Facilities Improvement Authority with the ability to issue bonds HB 4200 - Relating to possession of concealed deadly weapons in certain buildings owned by the state HB 4357 - Requiring the construction of new public buildings and when an entrance of an existing public building is renovated to be complian HB 4575 - Relating to the West Virginia Contractor Licensing Act HB 4583 - Relating to the regulation of dilapidated buildings

Capitol Complex (37 Bills)HB 2459 - Permitting certain holders of concealed weapons permits to carry weapons of the grounds and buildings on the State Capitol Complex HB 2476 - Encouraging public officials to display the national motto on all public property and public buildings HB 4309 - Permitting a person to keep a firearm in his or her motor vehicle upon the grounds of the State Capitol Complex

Cemeteries (7 Bills)HB 2442 - Requiring every internment or grave to identify the decedents' identity HB 2893 - Relating to preservation of cemeteries HB 4132 - Making it illegal for anyone to photograph a corpse except for certain legitimate purposes HB 4167 - Increasing the criminal penalties for damage to a cemetery or graveyard

Child Welfare (5 Bills)HB 2110 - Providing that visitation to a grandparent shall consist of a minimum of one visit a month HB 2146 - Relating to conduct and circumstances of child abuse HB 2167 - Creating the misdemeanor offense for child neglect resulting in a substantial risk of bodily injury HB 2201 - Relating to child abuse and neglect HB 2220 - Prohibiting sex offenders from residing in certain areas and subjecting convicted sex offenders to global positional system monito HB 2245 - Requiring the use of helmets by skateboarders HB 2293 - Reducing from six months to three months the period of delinquency for failure to meet an obligation to pay support to a minor HB 2296 - Establishing a bill of rights for children in foster care HB 2297 - Establishing a bill of rights for foster parents HB 2298 - Providing guidance for prosecuting attorneys in cases involving abused and neglected children HB 2300 - Regulating the use of the internet by children HB 2305 - BPA-Free Kids Act HB 2324 - Increasing the minimum prison sentence for a parent or guardian or custodian who abuses a child HB 2338 - Requiring a convicted sex offender who volunteers for an organization whose volunteers have contact with minors to inform that org HB 2349 - Increasing the number of child protective service workers HB 2400 - Relating to disclosure of sex offender registration to private elementary and secondary schools, and to higher education instituti HB 2446 - Creating the crime of soliciting a minor HB 2452 - Relating to extended family visitation HB 2485 - Requiring health care providers to release unemancipated minor's medical records for drug testing to a parent or legal guardian wi HB 2499 - Eliminating good time for persons convicted of sex crimes involving minor children HB 2588 - Relating to requiring notification to foster parents HB 2773 - Relating to state responsibilities for the protection and care of children HB 2828 - Relating to the crime of soliciting or attempting to solicit a child into a motor vehicle near a school HB 2831 - Relating to mandatory immunizations for school children HB 2901 - Relating to juvenile proceedings HB 2972 - Providing for structured settlements for minors who are injured or otherwise suffer a loss HB 3061 - Relating to the right of a minor to nominate a guardian HB 3103 - Making it illegal to transport a minor across state lines to obtain an abortion without written consent of both parents HB 3121 - "Parents' Bill of Rights" HB 4004 - Relating to criminal offenses for child abuse HB 4005 - Relating to criminal offenses for child abuse and child neglect HB 4006 - Relating to the possession and distribution of child pornography HB 4113 - Preventing a person who is convicted of sexual assault from obtaining custody of a child born as a result HB 4114 - Preventing rapists from obtaining custody of a child resulting from the rape HB 4115 - Preventing a person who is convicted of child molestation from obtaining custody HB 4122 - Permitting a court to take into consideration a parent's drug or alcohol abuse when implementing a parenting plan HB 4139 - Restricting parental rights of child custody and visitation when the child was conceived as a result of a sexual assault or sexual HB 4231 - Relating to the effect of adoption on grandparent visitation rights HB 4335 - Relating to a child's right to nurse HB 4362 - Prohibiting smoking in a motor vehicle when a child is present HB 4381 - Establishing a four year pilot program to have social workers in public schools, from prekindergarten through the elementary schoo HB 4401 - Providing a court appointed special advocate (CASA) program in each judicial circuit and court appointed special advocates in each HB 4437 - Relating to the Division of Juvenile Services HB 4446 - West Virginia Child Welfare Act HB 4453 - Relating to the calculation of child support obligations HB 4504 - Providing for sharing juvenile records in certain circumstances with another state HB 4510 - Relating to goals for the care of foster children HB 4514 - Creating the Office of Child Protection Ombudsman HB 4554 - Adjusting penalties for willful failure to pay child support

Citizenship (2 Bills)HB 2152 - Requiring flowback plans for all work on oil and gas wells HB 2920 - Making clear that the Pledge of Allegiance said each instructional day in West Virginia public schools shall include the phrase "o

Civil Rights (2 Bills)HB 2010 - Prohibiting employers and labor unions from requiring employees to become or remain members of labor unions as a condition of empl HB 2216 - Preserving the rights of individuals guaranteed by the West Virginia Constitution and the United States Constitution when deciding HB 2387 - Relating to reasonable accommodations under the West Virginia Fair Housing Act for persons with disabilities who need assistive a HB 2408 - Requiring all state boards, commissions, committees or councils to be gender balanced and to have proportionate representation of HB 2557 - Extending or clarifying protections under the state's Whistle-Blower Law HB 2732 - Freedom From Unwarranted Surveillance Act HB 2856 - Prohibiting discrimination based upon age or sexual orientation HB 2997 - Prohibiting the use of unmanned aircraft HB 3131 - Providing that all persons have the right to be free from violence HB 4284 - Pregnant Workers' Fairness Act HB 4510 - Relating to goals for the care of foster children

Civil Service (1 Bills)HB 4153 - Providing that the State Fire Marshal shall serve at the will and pleasure of the fire commission HB 4386 - Establishing seniority rights for public employees HB 4460 - Relating to violating provisions of the civil service law for paid fire departments

Claims (3 Bills)HB 4503 - Declaring certain claims against the state and its agencies to be moral obligations of the state HB 4552 - Relating to the court of claims

Code Repealed (4 Bills)HB 2547 - Repealing provisions establishing a system for the issuance of personal safety orders HB 2609 - Relating to the Alternative and Renewable Energy Portfolio Act HB 4002 - Relating to the computation of local share for public school support purposes HB 4141 - Relating to licenses to sell paraphernalia for use with controlled substances HB 4228 - Repealing or removing certain portions of education-related statutes that have expired HB 4396 - Relating to a trial suspension in certain border counties of the Motor Fuel Excise Tax HB 4438 - Relating to comparative fault HB 4477 - Relating to the practice of psychology HB 4493 - Repealing section of code that determines venue for certain suits and actions in claims due and against the state

Contracts (19 Bills)HB 2280 - Requiring persons who are not members of the American Association of Professional Landmen to have two years or more of experience HB 2295 - Prohibiting project labor agreements on state-funded construction contracts HB 2744 - Allowing a tax deduction for all prepaid tuition contracts or college savings plan HB 2813 - Relating generally to the purchasing division HB 3039 - Relating to the right of the landlord of commercial premises to terminate the lease under certain circumstances HB 3093 - Relating to certification requirements for applicators who paint state bridges HB 3150 - Relating generally to purchasing HB 4215 - Requiring the Director of the Purchasing Division's direct purchases be consistent with the other requirements of the purchasing p HB 4317 - Relating to state procurement HB 4323 - Establishing requirements for prior review of all privatization proposals HB 4374 - Permitting purchases up to $100,000 without competitive bids HB 4447 - Relating to state procurement HB 4459 - Allowing a tenant to terminate a residential lease in certain circumstances relating to domestic violence or sexual assault HB 4499 - Updating the Uniform Common Interest Ownership Act HB 4521 - Relating to financing statements covering as-extracted collateral or timber HB 4585 - Relating to drug screening for West Virginia Work Program applicants

Corporations and Business Entities (1 Bills)HB 2022 - Relating to minimum grab bar standards for hotel and motel rooms that are specifically designated or intended for use by handicapp HB 2217 - Reducing the corporate net income tax rate to five point nine percent effective the first day of July, two thousand eleven HB 2234 - Exempting nonprofit, tax exempt corporations or organizations affiliated with a church from consumer sales and service tax HB 2363 - Prohibiting fractional pricing in the retail sale of gasoline HB 3098 - Relating to the accountability of a corporation's political activities HB 4278 - Rewriting the procedure by which corporations may obtain authorization from the West Virginia Board of Medicine to practice medici HB 4352 - Requiring entities that receive public moneys for the purpose of economic development to file an annual report HB 4372 - Permitting the Commissioner of Financial Institutions to require the filing of certain reports, data or information directly with HB 4406 - Relating to the accountability of a corporation's political activities HB 4488 - Eliminating the requirement for notarization of the articles of incorporation for cooperative associations HB 4500 - Relating to requirements for business registration HB 4512 - Regarding exemptions for businesses

Corrections (26 Bills)HB 2049 - Eliminating eligibility for parole for certain criminal offenses HB 2059 - Mandatory funding of community corrections programs HB 2080 - Requiring community corrections performance measurement standards for agencies responsible for supervising individuals placed on p HB 2092 - Adding certain sanctions for violations of probation and parole HB 2164 - Providing rehabilitation treatment programs to inmates imprisoned in any jail HB 2177 - Authorizing a responsible parent pilot project HB 2204 - Allowing a credit against state personal income tax for the purchase of a new wood or pellet stove HB 2261 - Requiring hospitals and other medical service providers to bill Medicaid for eligible inmate hospital and professional services HB 2308 - Relating to the excise tax on the privilege of transferring real property and using the tax to reimburse counties for regional jai HB 2325 - Authorizing immediate discharge and transportation to a regional jail for aggressive and violent behavior of persons committed to HB 2374 - Eliminating eligibility for parole for the offenses of abuse, neglect or death of an incapacitated adult, murder of a child by a p HB 2481 - Changing the way that the cost of incarcerating inmates in regional jails is collected HB 2499 - Eliminating good time for persons convicted of sex crimes involving minor children HB 2737 - Work/Incarceration Prison pilot program HB 2894 - Allowing the Division of Corrections and Regional Jail Authority employees who are authorized to carry a weapon to carry concealed HB 3094 - Subjecting persons convicted of sexual crimes against a minor to "GPS" monitoring for life HB 3142 - Relating to eligibility for release on parole of inmates in regional jails that have been committed to prison HB 3149 - Requiring the Commissioner of Corrections to keep a record of repeat offenses committed by persons convicted of sexual offenses ag HB 4210 - Juvenile sentencing reform HB 4252 - Changing the way counties pay for regional jail inmates HB 4313 - Relating to powers and duties of the parole board HB 4338 - Requiring that inmates in a regional jail, but committed to the custody of the Commissioner of Corrections, have available the sam HB 4380 - Making the Department of Corrections and the Department of Health, and their respective workplaces, subject to the Occupational Sa HB 4385 - Transferring to an adult correctional facility any juvenile whose sentence runs beyond his or her eighteenth birthday HB 4437 - Relating to the Division of Juvenile Services HB 4581 - Relating to deductions from sentence for good conduct HB 4614 - Establishing the West Virginia Sentencing Commission

Counties -- Commissions (39 Bills)HB 2086 - Establishing a funding source and programs for persons with traumatic brain injury HB 2799 - Allowing county commissions broad discretion in setting the salaries of county elected officials HB 2895 - Requiring display of POW/MIA flag on county courthouses and other government buildings HB 2924 - Authorizing counties to create urban growth boundaries HB 2963 - Providing educators released time to serve on county commissions HB 3048 - Authorizing county commissions to hear actions for ejectment and other actions HB 4247 - Permitting the Ohio County Commission to levy a special district excise tax HB 4329 - Authorizing county commissions to regulate parking on roads, ways, streets, avenues, drives and the like where it is needed in c

Courts -- Circuit (10 Bills)HB 2310 - Adding a circuit court judge for the 5th Judicial Circuit HB 2401 - Requiring the Department of Health and Human Resources to reimburse the circuit clerk of the county where involuntary commitment h HB 2452 - Relating to extended family visitation HB 2479 - Relating to the nonpartisan elections of justices of the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals and circuit court judges HB 3070 - Relating to bail bond surcharge HB 4125 - Providing for the collection of certain fees dedicated to pay civil legal fees for low income persons HB 4140 - Authorizing an additional circuit court judge for the thirtieth judicial circuit HB 4162 - Relating to the Local Solution Dropout Prevention and Recovery Innovation Zone Act HB 4193 - Creating a new judicial circuit court for Upshur County HB 4205 - Adding a second judge to the twenty-sixth judicial circuit HB 4348 - Enhancing civil legal services for the poor HB 4401 - Providing a court appointed special advocate (CASA) program in each judicial circuit and court appointed special advocates in each HB 4509 - Authorizing an additional circuit court judge for the twenty-third judicial circuit HB 4616 - Relating to excuses from jury service

Courts -- Magistrate (14 Bills)HB 2040 - Providing that when a person from another state writes a worthless check in this state which results in a summons to appear in mag HB 2189 - Creating a magistrate court deputy clerk for Mineral county HB 2212 - Adding a magistrate to Monongalia County HB 2227 - Increasing the minimum number of magisterial districts in a county HB 2287 - Increasing the jurisdictional amount in controversy in Magistrate Courts HB 2552 - Providing an exception to magistrates and municipal court judges from the requirement of having a license to carry a concealed wea HB 2787 - Permitting family court judges and magistrates to carry concealed handguns without a permit HB 3070 - Relating to bail bond surcharge

Courts -- Supreme Court (8 Bills)HB 2100 - Adding one family court judge to the twenty-third family court circuit HB 2479 - Relating to the nonpartisan elections of justices of the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals and circuit court judges HB 2901 - Relating to juvenile proceedings HB 3012 - Relating to the nonpartisan election of justices to the Supreme Court of Appeals beginning in 2014 HB 4598 - Requiring the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals to maintain a searchable, criminal database containing copies of all arrests

Courts (And Related Subheadings) (4 Bills)HB 2080 - Requiring community corrections performance measurement standards for agencies responsible for supervising individuals placed on p HB 2084 - Providing forensic evaluators with civil immunity for acts committed by the subject of the evaluation HB 2100 - Adding one family court judge to the twenty-third family court circuit HB 2270 - Increasing the effective period for domestic violence protective orders HB 2318 - Relating to competency and criminal responsibility of persons charged or convicted of a crime HB 2568 - Authorizing the Legislature to add a nonbinding advisory referendum ballot issue HB 2787 - Permitting family court judges and magistrates to carry concealed handguns without a permit HB 2869 - Providing for judges and magistrates of West Virginia Courts to carry concealed firearms HB 2892 - Changing the number of strikes in jury selection in felony cases HB 2894 - Allowing the Division of Corrections and Regional Jail Authority employees who are authorized to carry a weapon to carry concealed HB 2988 - Providing the West Virginia Courthouse Facilities Improvement Authority with the ability to issue bonds HB 2989 - Creating a system for the bifurcation for trial of claims for compensatory and exemplary damages HB 3096 - Increasing the compensation caps for secretary-clerks and case coordinators in the family court system HB 3118 - Requiring a change of venue in all criminal matters for which the sentence could be life without mercy and to allow for appeals by HB 3141 - Providing consistency for the location of the Alcohol Beverage Control Administration's appeal hearings HB 3154 - Relating to the expungement of certain felony convictions HB 4122 - Permitting a court to take into consideration a parent's drug or alcohol abuse when implementing a parenting plan HB 4166 - Exempting municipal court judges from fees for application and license to carry concealed weapons HB 4294 - Establishing standards for court reporters and entities that provide court reporting services HB 4430 - Removing the compensation caps entirely for secretary-clerks and case coordinators HB 4434 - Relating generally to bail bondsmen in criminal cases HB 4443 - Relating to expungement of certain criminal convictions HB 4462 - Authorizing a new court to be know as the Intermediate Court of Appeals HB 4594 - Authorizing the issuance of a subpoena duces tecum to a law-enforcement agency for documents or objects in aid of a criminal inves HB 4614 - Establishing the West Virginia Sentencing Commission HB 4616 - Relating to excuses from jury service

Creditors and Debtors (6 Bills)HB 2078 - Prohibiting the use of a credit score in casualty insurance rate filings HB 2087 - Requiring regulated consumer lenders to provide a substantial benefit or a substantial benefit disclosure form for certain loans HB 2282 - Prohibiting the use of a person's credit history in insurance transactions HB 2412 - Ensuring that borrowers are provided accurate notice of their right to cure a default on any installment or other secured obligati HB 3010 - Limiting the use of credit information in connection with the declination and termination of property insurance

Crimes (And Related Subheadings) (25 Bills)HB 2020 - Relating to conditions of bond for defendants in cases of crimes between family or household members HB 2037 - Increasing the minimum sentence for maliciously assaults a government representative HB 2142 - Providing a criminal penalty for transmitting bulk electronic mail messages which are unsolicited HB 2324 - Increasing the minimum prison sentence for a parent or guardian or custodian who abuses a child

Crimes -- Alcohol and Drugs (17 Bills)HB 2130 - Establishing prohibited acts relating to possession of controlled substances obtained from more than one health practitioner HB 2146 - Relating to conduct and circumstances of child abuse HB 2495 - Requiring participation in a drug treatment program for all drug offenders HB 2500 - Increasing the penalty for driving under the influence causing death HB 3074 - Increasing the criminal penalties for the offenses of driving under the influence of alcohol, controlled substances or drugs; "And HB 4013 - Increasing criminal penalties for the transportation of controlled substances HB 4122 - Permitting a court to take into consideration a parent's drug or alcohol abuse when implementing a parenting plan HB 4189 - Overdose Prevention Act HB 4190 - Relating to controlling methamphetamine HB 4248 - Requiring a criminal penalty for all first offenses of driving under the influence of alcohol, controlled substances or drugs

Crimes -- Felonies (15 Bills)HB 2049 - Eliminating eligibility for parole for certain criminal offenses HB 2156 - Providing criminal penalties for the intentional defacement of public and private property due to graffiti HB 2311 - Permitting the state to opt out of a federal statute that would otherwise not allow a state resident who has been convicted of a f HB 2407 - Eliminating the third offense conviction of shoplifting and its corresponding felony penalty HB 2483 - Creating the felony offense of possession of one gram or more of cocaine HB 2595 - Relating to the death penalty for first degree murder HB 2892 - Changing the number of strikes in jury selection in felony cases HB 3154 - Relating to the expungement of certain felony convictions HB 4006 - Relating to the possession and distribution of child pornography HB 4226 - Prohibiting damage to property of railroads, public utilities and certain production storage and distribution facilities HB 4337 - Providing that an act of domestic violence or a sexual offense by strangling is an aggravated felony offense HB 4344 - Amending the human trafficking statute HB 4371 - Creating a crime for theft of a traffic sign or traffic signal HB 4415 - Relating to the collection of DNA samples from individuals arrested on a felony

Crimes -- Juveniles (2 Bills)HB 2181 - Creating a juvenile sex offender registration HB 2400 - Relating to disclosure of sex offender registration to private elementary and secondary schools, and to higher education instituti HB 2820 - Prohibiting a person convicted of a sexual offense against a child from being on school property without written permission HB 2828 - Relating to the crime of soliciting or attempting to solicit a child into a motor vehicle near a school HB 2935 - Increasing certain penalties under the child pornography law to make them similar to those imposed under federal law HB 3094 - Subjecting persons convicted of sexual crimes against a minor to "GPS" monitoring for life HB 3149 - Requiring the Commissioner of Corrections to keep a record of repeat offenses committed by persons convicted of sexual offenses ag HB 4003 - Granting dual jurisdiction to counties where a student who lives in one county and attends school in another in order to enforce t HB 4004 - Relating to criminal offenses for child abuse HB 4005 - Relating to criminal offenses for child abuse and child neglect HB 4006 - Relating to the possession and distribution of child pornography HB 4162 - Relating to the Local Solution Dropout Prevention and Recovery Innovation Zone Act HB 4210 - Juvenile sentencing reform HB 4269 - Creating a Task Force on the Prevention of Sexual Abuse of Children within the Center for Professional Development HB 4385 - Transferring to an adult correctional facility any juvenile whose sentence runs beyond his or her eighteenth birthday HB 4554 - Adjusting penalties for willful failure to pay child support

Crimes -- Sexual Offenses (4 Bills)HB 2181 - Creating a juvenile sex offender registration HB 2220 - Prohibiting sex offenders from residing in certain areas and subjecting convicted sex offenders to global positional system monito HB 2338 - Requiring a convicted sex offender who volunteers for an organization whose volunteers have contact with minors to inform that org HB 2446 - Creating the crime of soliciting a minor HB 2499 - Eliminating good time for persons convicted of sex crimes involving minor children HB 2810 - Clarifying the statutory restrictions placed on sex offenders HB 2820 - Prohibiting a person convicted of a sexual offense against a child from being on school property without written permission HB 2935 - Increasing certain penalties under the child pornography law to make them similar to those imposed under federal law HB 3094 - Subjecting persons convicted of sexual crimes against a minor to "GPS" monitoring for life HB 3132 - Creating the offense of sexual battery HB 3149 - Requiring the Commissioner of Corrections to keep a record of repeat offenses committed by persons convicted of sexual offenses ag HB 4006 - Relating to the possession and distribution of child pornography HB 4113 - Preventing a person who is convicted of sexual assault from obtaining custody of a child born as a result HB 4114 - Preventing rapists from obtaining custody of a child resulting from the rape HB 4115 - Preventing a person who is convicted of child molestation from obtaining custody HB 4130 - Creating the crime of prohibited sexual contact by a psychotherapist HB 4139 - Restricting parental rights of child custody and visitation when the child was conceived as a result of a sexual assault or sexual HB 4236 - Sexual assault nurse examination network HB 4269 - Creating a Task Force on the Prevention of Sexual Abuse of Children within the Center for Professional Development HB 4337 - Providing that an act of domestic violence or a sexual offense by strangling is an aggravated felony offense HB 4344 - Amending the human trafficking statute HB 4459 - Allowing a tenant to terminate a residential lease in certain circumstances relating to domestic violence or sexual assault

Crimes (And Related Subheadings) (1 Bills)HB 2012 - Including a clearer definition of hazing within West Virginia's antihazing statute HB 2033 - Requiring an automatic home confinement sentence for certain nonviolent misdemeanors HB 2059 - Mandatory funding of community corrections programs HB 2156 - Providing criminal penalties for the intentional defacement of public and private property due to graffiti HB 2167 - Creating the misdemeanor offense for child neglect resulting in a substantial risk of bodily injury HB 2259 - Requiring persons giving testimony or providing information to the Legislature to attest to the truthfulness of the testimony HB 2269 - Making it a crime for preventing an individual from calling emergency service personnel HB 2318 - Relating to competency and criminal responsibility of persons charged or convicted of a crime HB 2325 - Authorizing immediate discharge and transportation to a regional jail for aggressive and violent behavior of persons committed to HB 2337 - Creating the criminal offense of online impersonation HB 2374 - Eliminating eligibility for parole for the offenses of abuse, neglect or death of an incapacitated adult, murder of a child by a p HB 2407 - Eliminating the third offense conviction of shoplifting and its corresponding felony penalty HB 2774 - Relating to the effects of a criminal conviction and incarceration on a municipal officer HB 2804 - Creating enhanced criminal penalties for assaults or batteries against pregnant women HB 2939 - Modifying the definition of "battery" and "domestic battery" HB 3118 - Requiring a change of venue in all criminal matters for which the sentence could be life without mercy and to allow for appeals by HB 4014 - Increasing criminal penalties for littering HB 4132 - Making it illegal for anyone to photograph a corpse except for certain legitimate purposes HB 4167 - Increasing the criminal penalties for damage to a cemetery or graveyard HB 4226 - Prohibiting damage to property of railroads, public utilities and certain production storage and distribution facilities HB 4234 - Adding jail time to penalties for certain types of criminal trespass HB 4257 - Providing criminal penalties for the dissemination of false, misleading or deceptive information through automated telephone calls HB 4297 - Relating to the operation and oversight of certain benefit programs HB 4371 - Creating a crime for theft of a traffic sign or traffic signal HB 4434 - Relating generally to bail bondsmen in criminal cases HB 4443 - Relating to expungement of certain criminal convictions HB 4445 - Modifying the definition of "battery" and "domestic battery" HB 4465 - Relating to the disqualification of persons convicted of treason, felony, or bribery from holding public office HB 4614 - Establishing the West Virginia Sentencing Commission

Culture and History (22 Bills)HB 2779 - Relating to state recognition of Native American tribes HB 2893 - Relating to preservation of cemeteries HB 2981 - Providing that historical reenactors are not violating the provision prohibiting unlawful military organizations

Disabilities (5 Bills)HB 2013 - Preventing a reduction in the annuity of a person who retires with disability retirement at age sixty-five HB 2022 - Relating to minimum grab bar standards for hotel and motel rooms that are specifically designated or intended for use by handicapp HB 2086 - Establishing a funding source and programs for persons with traumatic brain injury HB 2180 - Exempting from the sales and use tax special equipment installed in a motor vehicle for the use of a person with physical disabili HB 2274 - Raising the maximum personal income tax exemption for persons over the age of sixty-five and for persons who are totally disabled HB 2379 - Exempting disabled veterans from campground rental fees during certain times HB 2387 - Relating to reasonable accommodations under the West Virginia Fair Housing Act for persons with disabilities who need assistive a HB 2402 - Exempting disabled veterans who have suffered a hundred percent total and permanent service-connected disability from state incom HB 2445 - Providing permanent total disability recipients annual cost-of-living allowances HB 2475 - Requiring the DHHR to provide matching funds for trust income disbursed to support autistic minors HB 2537 - Requiring retail establishments offering gasoline or other motor fuel to provide refueling assistance and refueling access to pers HB 2728 - Allowing a disabled veteran to park in a designated accessible parking space without placard HB 3005 - Requiring any employer to retain a job for any veteran with a service-connected disability HB 3006 - Retaining jobs for certain disabled veterans HB 3007 - Relating to job retention for any veteran with a service-connected disability while seeking or receiving treatment HB 3016 - Restroom Access Act HB 3078 - Raising the maximum personal income tax exemption for persons over the age of sixty-five and for persons who are totally disabled HB 3095 - Relating to discounts at state parks for elderly and disabled persons HB 4137 - Relating to more equitable distribution to county boards of reimbursement of the costs of serving certain special needs students HB 4206 - Providing that "van accessible" mobility impaired parking spaces may be used only by a van HB 4357 - Requiring the construction of new public buildings and when an entrance of an existing public building is renovated to be complian HB 4566 - Relating to workers' compensation death and disability benefits HB 4578 - Relating to the classification and criteria for disability benefits HB 4608 - Defining dyslexia and dyscalculia

Domestic Relations (16 Bills)HB 2020 - Relating to conditions of bond for defendants in cases of crimes between family or household members HB 2110 - Providing that visitation to a grandparent shall consist of a minimum of one visit a month HB 2201 - Relating to child abuse and neglect HB 2251 - Providing for the payment of unemployment compensation when a person misses work due to domestic violence HB 2270 - Increasing the effective period for domestic violence protective orders HB 2293 - Reducing from six months to three months the period of delinquency for failure to meet an obligation to pay support to a minor HB 2296 - Establishing a bill of rights for children in foster care HB 2297 - Establishing a bill of rights for foster parents HB 2299 - Requiring certain insurance companies to participate in information data matches with the Bureau of Child Support Enforcement HB 2424 - Relating to automatic revocation of a will upon legal separation and excluding from the definition of "surviving spouse" HB 2452 - Relating to extended family visitation HB 2588 - Relating to requiring notification to foster parents HB 3121 - "Parents' Bill of Rights" HB 4113 - Preventing a person who is convicted of sexual assault from obtaining custody of a child born as a result HB 4114 - Preventing rapists from obtaining custody of a child resulting from the rape HB 4115 - Preventing a person who is convicted of child molestation from obtaining custody HB 4122 - Permitting a court to take into consideration a parent's drug or alcohol abuse when implementing a parenting plan HB 4139 - Restricting parental rights of child custody and visitation when the child was conceived as a result of a sexual assault or sexual HB 4209 - Domestic violence victims' eligibility for unemployment compensation benefits HB 4231 - Relating to the effect of adoption on grandparent visitation rights HB 4453 - Relating to the calculation of child support obligations HB 4459 - Allowing a tenant to terminate a residential lease in certain circumstances relating to domestic violence or sexual assault HB 4519 - Relating to grandparent's rights HB 4554 - Adjusting penalties for willful failure to pay child support

Drugs and Drug Paraphernalia (43 Bills)HB 2011 - Establishing threshold quantities of certain controlled substances to trigger prima facie evidence of intent to deliver if possess HB 2096 - Relating to the remediation and disclosure of clandestine drug laboratories HB 2244 - Providing that a plant based substance or biological organism determined to provide any potential medical benefit may not be desig HB 2327 - Adding the county sheriff, or his or her designee, to those law-enforcement officials who are granted access to certain confidenti HB 2483 - Creating the felony offense of possession of one gram or more of cocaine HB 2485 - Requiring health care providers to release unemancipated minor's medical records for drug testing to a parent or legal guardian wi HB 2495 - Requiring participation in a drug treatment program for all drug offenders HB 2501 - Creating the West Virginia Addictions Treatment and Recovery Fund HB 2527 - Creating a drug testing program for applicants and recipients of temporary assistance for needy families cash benefits HB 2528 - Requiring holders of graduated driver's licenses to pass drug tests HB 3146 - Implementing drug testing for recipients of federal-state and state assistance HB 4141 - Relating to licenses to sell paraphernalia for use with controlled substances HB 4161 - Allowing State Police, police, sheriffs and fire and emergency service personnel to possess Naloxone or other approved opioid anta HB 4169 - Offer of Emergency Aid Medication to Patients Prescribed Opiates HB 4170 - Requiring a person convicted of a prior felony drug offense to have a valid prescription to purchase ephedrine, pseudoephedrine or HB 4208 - Banning synthetic hallucinogens HB 4212 - Establishing a methamphetamine registry HB 4240 - Regulating synthetic marijuana and other synthetic drugs as Schedule I drugs HB 4264 - Creating the Compassionate Use Act for Medical Cannabis HB 4327 - Prohibiting health care practitioners from prescribing or administering drugs other than in a good faith, therapeutic manner HB 4433 - Implementing drug testing for recipients of federal-state and state assistance HB 4522 - Implementing drug testing for certain recipients of federal-state and state assistance HB 4524 - Creating within the State Police a methamphetamine registry HB 4585 - Relating to drug screening for West Virginia Work Program applicants HB 4591 - Relating to the purchase, receipt, acquisition and possession for illicit purposes of substances containing ephedrine, pseudoephe

Economic Development (9 Bills)HB 2109 - Creative Communities Development Act HB 2182 - Creating the West Virginia Innovation Free-Trade Business Technology Property Valuation Act and the West Virginia Innovation Free- HB 2286 - Allowing the Division of Energy to develop an energy related public relations campaign focused on educating the Washington, D.C. a HB 2417 - Creating a fund within the council for community and economic development to assist communities with strategic and feasibility pla HB 2578 - Creating the Good Jobs Internet Reporting Act HB 2903 - Creating the Economic Fairness Act of 2013 HB 2974 - Relating to a tax deduction allowed for capital expenditures from the corporate net income tax HB 3097 - Entitling natural resource producers to the economic opportunity tax credit HB 4148 - Repealing the Strategic Research and Development Tax Credit HB 4187 - Dissolving the West Virginia Parkways, Economic Development and Tourism Authority and transfer its powers to the Secretary of the HB 4247 - Permitting the Ohio County Commission to levy a special district excise tax HB 4334 - Creating tax credits for small business economic impact HB 4343 - West Virginia Project Launchpad Act HB 4352 - Requiring entities that receive public moneys for the purpose of economic development to file an annual report HB 4403 - Creating a tax credit for certain businesses that locate within a twenty-mile radius of a Hatfield-McCoy recreation area trail hea HB 4526 - Extending and expanding economic development programs of the West Virginia Jobs Investment Trust Fund HB 4528 - Small Employer Business Advocate Act HB 4576 - Creating the Jobs Impact Statement Act HB 4577 - Relating to providing assistance to small businesses by the West Virginia Development office

Education (And Related Subheadings) (3 Bills)HB 2017 - Providing nonsupervisory employees of the West Virginia State Board of Education with the same protections against summary dismiss HB 2024 - Allowing guidance counselors to compete equally for all guidance counselor positions HB 2036 - Relating to itinerant status for school service personnel HB 2053 - Requiring county boards of education to employ a certified library media specialist in each county school HB 2107 - Exempting county school boards of education school buses from paying tolls for transit over the West Virginia Turnpike or any park HB 2236 - Providing a salary supplement for providers of medicaid eligible services in the public schools HB 2289 - Requiring that transportation to and from school be provided for each child that needs or desires transportation HB 2319 - Allowing state employees to take paid leave to attend parent-teacher conference for their children HB 2320 - Giving local authorities the authority to decrease the speed limit on streets and highways where school buses travel in its jurisd HB 2482 - Prohibiting school employees from promoting abortion HB 2743 - Consolidating purchasing by county boards of education

Education -- Colleges & Universities (2 Bills)HB 2012 - Including a clearer definition of hazing within West Virginia's antihazing statute HB 2090 - Relating to redemption or repayment of PROMISE scholarship funds when a student drops or withdraws from classes HB 2163 - Adding $20 million to the West Virginia Research Trust Fund HB 2174 - Reducing federal adjusted gross income for recent graduates of higher education institutions HB 2186 - Protecting academic speech of professional educators HB 2228 - Creating the Higher Education Merit Screening Advisory Committee HB 2250 - Providing a loan forgiveness program for nurses, social workers, dentists and hygienists HB 2271 - Retaining nursing educators HB 2517 - Permitting volunteer firefighters to automatically qualify for Promise Scholarships HB 2581 - Requiring that a sum certain be deposited into the Education Improvement Fund for appropriation by the Legislature HB 2741 - Protecting academic freedom in higher education HB 2744 - Allowing a tax deduction for all prepaid tuition contracts or college savings plan HB 2745 - Exempting undergraduate students attending state colleges or universities for the first two years postgraduation, from the payment HB 4009 - Permitting institutions of higher education to perform background checks HB 4188 - Updating the authority and responsibility of the Center for Nursing HB 4245 - Relating to anticipated retirement dates of certain health care professionals HB 4281 - Relating to education reform HB 4420 - Renaming the administrative heads of the Potomac campus of West Virginia University and the West Virginia University Institute of HB 4435 - Adding West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine to the list of state institutions of higher education that are permitted to in HB 4457 - Authorizing a legislative rule for the Council of Community and Technical College Education regarding WV EDGE program HB 4475 - Relating generally to higher education capital spending projects HB 4496 - Providing for the allocation of matching funds from future moneys deposited into the West Virginia Research Trust Fund HB 4568 - Relating to public higher education personnel

Education -- Courses, Programs & Testing (4 Bills)HB 2034 - Exempting children receiving an exemption from compulsory school attendance in favor of church school from standardized testing re HB 2291 - Relating to the denial of course credits for unexcused absences in school HB 2303 - Requiring all high schools include in their health classes a course in fetal development HB 2342 - Permitting the issuance of a barrister's certificate to teach course specific curricula in public schools HB 2594 - Relating to required courses of school instruction generally HB 2807 - Requiring the State Board of Education to pay annual bonuses of $5,000 to certain teachers HB 2808 - Authorizing the establishment of charter schools HB 2973 - Allowing certain county boards of education to operate their schools on a four-day school week HB 2983 - Requiring inclusion of science fiction reading material in certain existing middle school and high school courses HB 3042 - Providing a teacher mentoring increment for classroom teachers with national board certification who teach and mentor at certain s HB 3143 - Creating an environmental awareness program in the West Virginia School system HB 4383 - Relating to public school curricular standards and assessments HB 4384 - Requiring teachers of students with exceptional needs to either be present at an individualized education program meeting or to re HB 4582 - Relating to required physical education and program in physical fitness in the public schools HB 4612 - Providing that recess periods or other such time allocated for student physical activity during the regular class day may not be r

Education -- Retirement (11 Bills)HB 2099 - Increasing benefits of retired state personnel and retired teachers HB 2266 - Providing a one-time bonus payable in July of every year for retired public school teachers and state retirees HB 2334 - Repealing the one hundred forty day limitation that a retired school teacher may teach in public schools HB 2359 - Relating to the Public Employees Retirement System and the Teachers Retirement System; and providing a one-time supplement for ann HB 4221 - Permitting teachers under the State Teachers Retirement System to teach college level courses without loss of benefits HB 4245 - Relating to anticipated retirement dates of certain health care professionals HB 4365 - Relating to employer remittance and reporting of Teachers Retirement System member contributions to the retirement board HB 4366 - Clarifying that the Teachers' Retirement System annuity calculation for a member with reciprocal service credit shall be based on

Education -- Salaries, Classifications, Leave (19 Bills)HB 2024 - Allowing guidance counselors to compete equally for all guidance counselor positions HB 2028 - Relating to the employment and compensation of school service personnel HB 2035 - Providing full daily rate of pay for substitute teachers if they have in excess of ten instructional days in the same school year HB 2036 - Relating to itinerant status for school service personnel HB 2224 - Providing paid childbirth leave for higher education personnel HB 2326 - Relating to persons who do not qualify for professional certificates who are issued certificates to serve in the public schools as HB 2329 - Relating to the use of personal leave days by a surviving spouse of a deceased employee of a school board HB 2340 - Relating to teacher pay rate for work assignment outside regular school day or beyond a contracted employment period HB 2343 - Increasing the educational increment for school service personnel HB 2376 - Increasing salary increments paid to principals and assistant principals HB 2746 - Extending the Teachers' State Minimum Salary Schedule and equity supplements HB 2807 - Requiring the State Board of Education to pay annual bonuses of $5,000 to certain teachers HB 2827 - Modifying the funding ratio of school students to counselors HB 3042 - Providing a teacher mentoring increment for classroom teachers with national board certification who teach and mentor at certain s HB 4232 - Relating to minimum salary supplement and educational expense reimbursement for professional personnel HB 4261 - Relating to teacher and school service personnel salary increases HB 4270 - Relating to salaries of service employees of the state camp and conference center known as Cedar Lakes Conference Center HB 4281 - Relating to education reform HB 4404 - Permitting a salary increase for certain kindergarten aides and early childhood classroom assistant teachers HB 4444 - Increasing pay to teachers and service personnel by one percent a year, for three years HB 4568 - Relating to public higher education personnel

Education (And Related Subheadings) (11 Bills)HB 2086 - Establishing a funding source and programs for persons with traumatic brain injury HB 2121 - Requiring elementary students to have access to a certified library media specialist, art specialist, music specialist and physic HB 2134 - Allowing the school building authority to designate money for the building of playgrounds HB 2161 - Continuing education requirement of building code inspectors HB 2162 - Relating to educational benefits for dependents of deceased or disabled veterans HB 2175 - Requiring certain licensees to take continuing education in green building HB 2186 - Protecting academic speech of professional educators HB 2223 - Relating to compulsory school attendance HB 2233 - Relating to the School Building Authority HB 2247 - Relating to residency requirements for persons appointed as campus police officers HB 2306 - Clarifying that the Legislature is the sole authority regarding compulsory immunizations HB 2315 - Requiring automated external defibrillators in public schools HB 2400 - Relating to disclosure of sex offender registration to private elementary and secondary schools, and to higher education instituti HB 2474 - Authorizing tax credits for parents and legal guardians whose children are in a home schooling program HB 2496 - West Virginia School Personnel Survivor Benefit Act HB 2517 - Permitting volunteer firefighters to automatically qualify for Promise Scholarships HB 2526 - Allowing for the participation of home schooled students in certain secondary school activities HB 2545 - Creating the Nonresident Medical Student Tuition Regularization Program HB 2555 - Electing members of county school boards on a nonpartisan basis in general elections only HB 2560 - Providing exceptions to the prohibition of the possession of deadly weapons on premises of educational facilities HB 2752 - Exempting construction performed on behalf of educational authorities from prevailing wage requirements HB 2808 - Authorizing the establishment of charter schools HB 2821 - Relating to the Board of Barbers and Cosmetologists HB 2827 - Modifying the funding ratio of school students to counselors HB 2828 - Relating to the crime of soliciting or attempting to solicit a child into a motor vehicle near a school HB 2831 - Relating to mandatory immunizations for school children HB 2873 - Requiring that public schools provide facilities for students of all faiths and religions to have a place of fellowship, prayer an HB 2891 - Relating to scholarships for dependent children of state troopers who die in performance of duty HB 2901 - Relating to juvenile proceedings HB 2937 - Authorizing a county school board to adopt a policy that allows an inspirational message HB 2963 - Providing educators released time to serve on county commissions HB 2973 - Allowing certain county boards of education to operate their schools on a four-day school week HB 2982 - Prohibiting the use of calculators for teaching purposes in grades K through eight HB 3009 - Schoolchildren's Religious Liberties Act HB 3050 - Relating to salary increases for teachers based on residential housing costs HB 3111 - Relating to computing local share of public education support HB 4001 - Government Fraud Prevention Act HB 4002 - Relating to the computation of local share for public school support purposes HB 4003 - Granting dual jurisdiction to counties where a student who lives in one county and attends school in another in order to enforce t HB 4120 - Requiring the State Superintendent of Schools to be elected on a nonpartisan basis HB 4123 - Electing members of county school boards on a nonpartisan basis in general elections HB 4136 - Educational Equality Act HB 4137 - Relating to more equitable distribution to county boards of reimbursement of the costs of serving certain special needs students HB 4142 - Setting the maximum number of pupils per teacher in sixth through twelfth grade classrooms HB 4146 - Creating the Governor's Committee on School Board Unification HB 4162 - Relating to the Local Solution Dropout Prevention and Recovery Innovation Zone Act HB 4195 - Reducing the daily administrative time required of counselors HB 4228 - Repealing or removing certain portions of education-related statutes that have expired HB 4230 - Relating to the secondary schools athletic commission HB 4276 - Providing a credit against personal income tax for classroom teachers for nonreimbursed costs of supplies HB 4281 - Relating to education reform HB 4296 - Establishing the Health Sciences Service Program HB 4302 - Relating to elections for public school purposes HB 4307 - Relating to school celebrations, recognition programs and events HB 4316 - Creating the student data accessability, transparency and accountability act HB 4326 - Relating to nursing education faculty HB 4336 - Relating to state control of county schools HB 4349 - Clarifying retirement dependent child scholarship and burial benefits under a Qualified Domestic Relations Order HB 4373 - Relating to driver education programs HB 4381 - Establishing a four year pilot program to have social workers in public schools, from prekindergarten through the elementary schoo HB 4390 - Improving the education of West Virginia children by developing better education standards HB 4394 - Relating to the filling of professional personnel positions in the public schools HB 4441 - Relating to dangerous weapons HB 4467 - Relating to exempting individuals employed by a county board of education from plumbing licensing requirements while performing pl HB 4475 - Relating generally to higher education capital spending projects HB 4482 - Relating to qualifications to practice speech-language pathology in public schools HB 4484 - Establishing a maximum ratio of the number of employees of the West Virginia Department of Education to the number of students enr HB 4495 - Authorizing the election of and specifying qualifications for nonappointed members of the West Virginia Board of Education HB 4501 - Providing that law-enforcement officers employed as school security be allowed to carry firearms on school property under certain HB 4513 - Creating the College Degree Attainment Act HB 4516 - Relating to multicounty regional educational service agencies HB 4535 - Removing the requirement that home schooled students have to acquire a general equivalency degree (GED) in order to qualify for th HB 4548 - Relating to requirements for PROMISE scholarships HB 4550 - Providing educational incentives and longevity pay for state troopers HB 4555 - Requiring county boards of education to provide released time for professional educators and service personnel when serving in an HB 4597 - Relating to the State Board of Education HB 4608 - Defining dyslexia and dyscalculia

Education--Facilities (19 Bills)HB 2820 - Prohibiting a person convicted of a sexual offense against a child from being on school property without written permission

Elected Officials (29 Bills)HB 2225 - Creating a procedure by which the Governor or other elected member of the Board of Public Works can declare themselves disabled or HB 2476 - Encouraging public officials to display the national motto on all public property and public buildings HB 2555 - Electing members of county school boards on a nonpartisan basis in general elections only HB 2774 - Relating to the effects of a criminal conviction and incarceration on a municipal officer HB 2799 - Allowing county commissions broad discretion in setting the salaries of county elected officials HB 2885 - Prohibiting the use of the name or likeness of elected or appointed officials on publicly-owned vehicles HB 2887 - Increasing compensation, after July 1, 2013, of elected county officials and county commissioners for each class of county HB 4123 - Electing members of county school boards on a nonpartisan basis in general elections HB 4239 - Relating to counties HB 4414 - Relating to the solicitation of public employees by a candidate for an elective office HB 4465 - Relating to the disqualification of persons convicted of treason, felony, or bribery from holding public office HB 4547 - Relating to elections for vacancies in county offices HB 4555 - Requiring county boards of education to provide released time for professional educators and service personnel when serving in an

Elections (12 Bills)HB 2009 - Providing petitioners to referendums, elections or any other ballot issue be afforded the same privacy rights as voters HB 2019 - Relating to elections HB 2027 - Relating to the nonpartisan elections of Governor, Secretary of State, Treasurer, Auditor, Attorney General and Commissioner of Ag HB 2032 - Allowing political parties to obtain ballot access by expanding the scope of the definition of political party HB 2042 - Providing for removal and election of Public Service Commissioners HB 2082 - Prohibiting a cheif deputy sheriff from engaging in certain political activities HB 2179 - Relating to absentee ballot fraud HB 2215 - Requiring a voter to present an identifying document which contains the name, address and a photograph of that person HB 2405 - Redistricting of the House of Delegates into one hundred single member districts after the 2020 census HB 2479 - Relating to the nonpartisan elections of justices of the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals and circuit court judges HB 2555 - Electing members of county school boards on a nonpartisan basis in general elections only HB 2565 - Providing official ballot status to a political party that received at least one per cent of the votes HB 2568 - Authorizing the Legislature to add a nonbinding advisory referendum ballot issue HB 2736 - Relating to elections and write-in candidates HB 2771 - Relating to elections HB 2885 - Prohibiting the use of the name or likeness of elected or appointed officials on publicly-owned vehicles HB 3008 - Requiring the three commissioners of the Public Service Commission be elected from the three congressional districts for six-year HB 3012 - Relating to the nonpartisan election of justices to the Supreme Court of Appeals beginning in 2014 HB 3107 - Requiring voters to present identifying documents, issued either by the State of West Virginia or the United States Government tha HB 3117 - Relating to voter photo identification HB 3133 - Relating to voting by absentees HB 4120 - Requiring the State Superintendent of Schools to be elected on a nonpartisan basis HB 4121 - Requiring that the chairperson of the Public Service Commission be elected on a nonpartisan ballot HB 4123 - Electing members of county school boards on a nonpartisan basis in general elections HB 4198 - Amending canvassing process to eliminate hand counting of electronic voting systems HB 4246 - Placing on the ballot of voters whether the municipality should hold its future municipal elections on a state general election da HB 4302 - Relating to elections for public school purposes HB 4361 - Allowing members of the Legislature who are away serving in the Armed Forces to participate and vote via electronic teleconferenci HB 4399 - Prohibiting a local levying body from holding a special election under certain circumstances HB 4406 - Relating to the accountability of a corporation's political activities HB 4414 - Relating to the solicitation of public employees by a candidate for an elective office HB 4440 - Relating to the filing of financial statements with the Secretary of State HB 4463 - All relating to the disclosure of information on campaign contributions and spending HB 4465 - Relating to the disqualification of persons convicted of treason, felony, or bribery from holding public office HB 4473 - Relating to establishing voting precincts and changing the composition of standard receiving boards HB 4479 - Relating to voting procedures HB 4485 - Making it clear that municipalities have the power to both increase and decrease the number of voting wards and/or council members HB 4491 - Relating to where certificates of nomination are filed for municipal elections HB 4495 - Authorizing the election of and specifying qualifications for nonappointed members of the West Virginia Board of Education HB 4547 - Relating to elections for vacancies in county offices HB 4553 - Authorizing the Secretary of State to prosecute election violations

Emergency Services (3 Bills)HB 2007 - Establishing a program for reprogramming cellular telephones and distributing to seniors for making emergency calls HB 2269 - Making it a crime for preventing an individual from calling emergency service personnel HB 2273 - Limiting the liability of military personnel who respond to local emergencies and calls for assistance HB 2285 - Providing immunity from civil liability hospital volunteers who in good faith render emergency care at a hospital HB 2724 - Relating to the Emergency Medical Services Act HB 2801 - Creating the "West Virginia Infrastructure Emergency Response Act of 2013" HB 4126 - Improving state emergency preparedness HB 4147 - Relating to emergency preparedness HB 4175 - West Virginia Small Business Emergency Act HB 4249 - Allowing proceeds of a hotel occupancy tax not exceeding $200,000 per fiscal year to be expended for medical care and emergency se HB 4254 - Providing that certain state employees may be granted a leave of absence with pay during a declared state of emergency HB 4257 - Providing criminal penalties for the dissemination of false, misleading or deceptive information through automated telephone calls HB 4451 - Continuing the Office of Emergency Medical Services as an independent office within the Department of Military Affairs and Public HB 4494 - Relating to Emergency Medical Technicians - Mining HB 4515 - Preventing and mitigating catastrophes involving toxic substances HB 4530 - Adding additional requirements for notification relating to industrial facilities emergency event notification and access, and cre

Energy (1 Bills)HB 2062 - Studying the environmental and health impacts of shale gas development HB 2064 - Requiring a driller or owner of a natural gas well who contaminates a groundwater aquifer to remediate the aquifer until it meets HB 2066 - Requiring the posting of material data safety sheets and documentation of fracking fluid components HB 2141 - Renewable Portfolio Standards Sustainable Energy Act HB 2152 - Requiring flowback plans for all work on oil and gas wells HB 2176 - Relating to interconnection and net-metering of customer-generators of renewable energy HB 2200 - Energy Efficient Building Act HB 2204 - Allowing a credit against state personal income tax for the purchase of a new wood or pellet stove HB 2208 - Prohibiting underground injection of coal slurry in new permits or modifications and renewals HB 2210 - Relating to energy efficiency for electric and gas utilities and their customers HB 2280 - Requiring persons who are not members of the American Association of Professional Landmen to have two years or more of experience HB 2316 - Awarding credits for use of alternative and renewable energy resources HB 2323 - West Virginia Energy Efficiency Act HB 2348 - Creating and implementing a fund to encourage the development and use of renewable forms of energy HB 2430 - Exempting the construction or addition of active solar energy systems from real and personal property taxation HB 2436 - Relating to liquefied petroleum gas-consuming equipment and appliances HB 2564 - Delaying implementation of the Alternative and Renewable Energy Portfolio Act HB 2609 - Relating to the Alternative and Renewable Energy Portfolio Act HB 2875 - Relating to residential solar energy tax credits HB 3080 - Relating to alternative and renewable energy portfolio standards HB 4367 - West Virginia Energy Efficiency Resource Act HB 4382 - Establishing the Legislative Oversight Commission on Energy Workers Safety HB 4468 - Authorizing local units of government to adopt property assessed clean energy programs HB 4469 - Requiring the Director of the Division of Energy to develop an energy independence policy that ensures all oil, gas and coal produ

Environmental Protection (49 Bills)HB 2044 - Relating to air pollution control HB 2062 - Studying the environmental and health impacts of shale gas development HB 2066 - Requiring the posting of material data safety sheets and documentation of fracking fluid components HB 2118 - West Virginia Renewable Energy Act HB 2141 - Renewable Portfolio Standards Sustainable Energy Act HB 2143 - Requiring liners in all new surface coal-waste impoundments and requiring regulations relating to the planning, constructing and m HB 2152 - Requiring flowback plans for all work on oil and gas wells HB 2183 - Requiring all final actions by the Department of Environmental Protection regarding coal mine permits to be completed within six m HB 2211 - Imposing advanced recovery fees on consumers for the purchase of electronic devices HB 2214 - Intrastate Coal and Use Act HB 2286 - Allowing the Division of Energy to develop an energy related public relations campaign focused on educating the Washington, D.C. a HB 2292 - Requiring the Department of Environmental Protection to remediate any waste tire pile in the state consisting of more than twenty- HB 2304 - Adding oil and gas facilities, wells, pipelines and tanks to the coordinated statewide program of air pollution prevention HB 2347 - Establishing a returnable beverage container deposit program HB 2362 - Relating to water pollution control HB 2419 - Relating to dual liner requirements HB 2535 - Creating the "Intrastate Coal and Use Act" and the "Intrastate Oil and Natural Gas and Use Act" HB 2862 - Relating to informal conferences on surface mining permit applications HB 3001 - Requiring a composite soil sampling and testing be performed on the ground area underneath a pit or impoundment after it has been HB 3046 - Requiring the Department of Environmental Protection to issue a procedural rule to allow surface owners a right to a hearing and a HB 3071 - Relating to civil penalties and civil administrative penalties for violations of the Water Pollution Control Act HB 3075 - Permitting the disposal of drill cuttings and associated drilling mud generated from well sites in solid waste landfills HB 3143 - Creating an environmental awareness program in the West Virginia School system HB 3153 - Relating to retailer electronic waste collection HB 4014 - Increasing criminal penalties for littering HB 4258 - Creating a source water protection program and an industrial aboveground storage tank program to protect source water supplies and HB 4275 - Making West Virginia's Water Pollution Control Act consistent with the federal Water Pollution Act HB 4277 - Requiring registration and inventory of existing above-ground storage tanks HB 4285 - Amending the Water Resources Protection and Management Act to incorporate recommendations from the state Water Resources Managemen HB 4295 - Requiring uniform enforcement of environmental rules HB 4339 - Ensuring that moneys from the Solid Waste Authority Closure Cost Assistance Fund are available to facilitate the closure of the El HB 4346 - Establishing separate standards of performance for carbon dioxide emissions HB 4411 - Allowing the disposal of drill cuttings and associated drilling waste generated from well sites in commercial solid waste faciliti

Estates and Trusts (6 Bills)HB 2424 - Relating to automatic revocation of a will upon legal separation and excluding from the definition of "surviving spouse" HB 2475 - Requiring the DHHR to provide matching funds for trust income disbursed to support autistic minors HB 2488 - Real Property Transfer on Death Act HB 3037 - Relating to the form of trust deeds HB 3077 - Relating to the publication requirements of the administration of estates HB 4011 - Uniform Real Property Transfer on Death Act HB 4398 - Eliminating the filing of nonprobate inventory with the Tax Commissioner for certain decedents

Ethics (5 Bills)HB 2748 - Requiring the reporting and publication of all compensation, including the source of that compensation, paid to lobbyists HB 2796 - Requiring lobbyists to disclose compensation agreements HB 3150 - Relating generally to purchasing HB 4298 - Changing the experience requirements of the composition of the members of the West Virginia Ethics Commission HB 4340 - Providing an exception to certain provisions of the West Virginia Ethics Act

Fire Fighting and Prevention (8 Bills)HB 2001 - Providing meetings and conference rights for members of municipal fire departments HB 2380 - Relating to meeting and conference rights for members of police or fire departments employed by political subdivisions HB 2382 - Relating to the Fire Prevention and Control Act HB 2423 - Allowing county fire companies and departments to charge reasonable reimbursement fees HB 2500 - Increasing the penalty for driving under the influence causing death HB 2517 - Permitting volunteer firefighters to automatically qualify for Promise Scholarships HB 2959 - Relating to workers' compensation HB 2996 - Relating to smoke detectors in one-and two-family dwellings HB 3017 - Requiring the State Fire Marshal to propose rules for legislative approval to set standards for minimum acceptable fire company on HB 4153 - Providing that the State Fire Marshal shall serve at the will and pleasure of the fire commission HB 4314 - Providing a $500 credit for certain members of volunteer fire departments against state personal income tax HB 4387 - Providing a $500 credit for certain members of volunteer fire departments against state personal income tax HB 4392 - Regulating persons who perform work on heating, ventilating and cooling systems and fire dampers HB 4460 - Relating to violating provisions of the civil service law for paid fire departments HB 4497 - Relating to workers' compensation HB 4536 - Retaining current West Virginia National Guard firefighters HB 4559 - Taking back the surcharge on fire and casualty insurance policies to one percent HB 4590 - Relating to the Volunteer Fire Departments Workers' Compensation Subsidy Program and the Volunteer Fire Department Workers' Compen HB 4604 - Providing discounted motor vehicle registration fees for members of volunteer fire departments

Firearms (20 Bills)HB 2037 - Increasing the minimum sentence for maliciously assaults a government representative HB 2135 - Permitting those individuals who have been issued concealed weapons permits to keep loaded firearms in their motor vehicles on the HB 2427 - West Virginia Firearms Freedom Act HB 2437 - Exempting of certain public safety training courses from payment of consumer sales tax HB 2459 - Permitting certain holders of concealed weapons permits to carry weapons of the grounds and buildings on the State Capitol Complex HB 2502 - Including oral or written inquiry of a patient about possession, ownership or storage of firearms as a reason for invoking discipl HB 2558 - Removing the "grandfather" clause that excepts municipal ordinances limiting the purchase, possession, transfer, ownership, carryi HB 2560 - Providing exceptions to the prohibition of the possession of deadly weapons on premises of educational facilities HB 2572 - Clarifying circumstances under which a person may possess certain firearms while afield hunting HB 2760 - Creating a uniform regulation of firearms, ammunition, and firearm accessories HB 2787 - Permitting family court judges and magistrates to carry concealed handguns without a permit HB 2832 - Creating the "Firearm Protection Act" HB 2967 - Prohibiting the publication of the identities of persons who have been issued licenses to carry a concealed deadly weapon HB 3019 - Clarifying circumstances under which a person may possess certain firearms while afield hunting HB 4166 - Exempting municipal court judges from fees for application and license to carry concealed weapons HB 4186 - Relating to the procedures for issuing a concealed weapon license HB 4229 - Providing that all future federal, state and local statutes concerning firearms are invalid and unenforceable HB 4271 - Relating to firearms and concealed firearms licenses HB 4288 - Providing for the uniform regulation of firearms, ammunition and firearm accessories HB 4308 - Relating to the Municipal Home Rule Pilot Program HB 4309 - Permitting a person to keep a firearm in his or her motor vehicle upon the grounds of the State Capitol Complex HB 4369 - Providing that all future federal and local statutes, ordinances, laws, orders and rules concerning firearms, firearm accessories, HB 4501 - Providing that law-enforcement officers employed as school security be allowed to carry firearms on school property under certain

Forestry (20 Bills)HB 3064 - Allowing the general public to use certain certified timberland for certain recreational purposes for that property to maintain it HB 4201 - Relating to civil and criminal penalties for violations of the Logging Sediment Control Act HB 4202 - Defining timber theft, and to provide the Division of Forestry the authority to investigate and enforce violations HB 4320 - Removing the severance tax on timber

Freedom of Information (2 Bills)HB 2172 - Redefining the term "public record" as it is used in the Freedom of Information Act HB 2911 - Exempting records of concealed weapon license applications and issuance from disclosure under the West Virginia Freedom of Inform HB 3129 - Creating of the Verifiable Science Act HB 4442 - Adding law-enforcement officers' personal information to the list of FOIA exemptions HB 4464 - All relating to the Freedom of Information Act

Funds (17 Bills)HB 2018 - Requiring racetracks who are licensed to operate video lottery terminals pay a fee of one thousand dollars for each machine and th HB 2163 - Adding $20 million to the West Virginia Research Trust Fund HB 2205 - Specifying that infrastructure projects providing broadband services facilities be included in infrastructure projects eligible fo HB 2267 - Creating the Senior Farmers' Market Nutrition Program Fund HB 2348 - Creating and implementing a fund to encourage the development and use of renewable forms of energy HB 2364 - The Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act HB 2375 - No State-Funded Transportation for Abortion Act HB 2417 - Creating a fund within the council for community and economic development to assist communities with strategic and feasibility pla HB 2501 - Creating the West Virginia Addictions Treatment and Recovery Fund HB 2581 - Requiring that a sum certain be deposited into the Education Improvement Fund for appropriation by the Legislature HB 2592 - Establishing a Library Facilities Improvement Fund HB 2976 - Creating a fund for pothole repair contributed to by private businesses or entities HB 2988 - Providing the West Virginia Courthouse Facilities Improvement Authority with the ability to issue bonds HB 3017 - Requiring the State Fire Marshal to propose rules for legislative approval to set standards for minimum acceptable fire company on HB 3070 - Relating to bail bond surcharge HB 4125 - Providing for the collection of certain fees dedicated to pay civil legal fees for low income persons HB 4155 - Suspending payments of the refundable exemption to the West Virginia consumers sales and service tax to the State Road Fund for fi HB 4157 - Extending the cessation of deposits into the Special Railroad and Intermodal Enhancement Fund HB 4266 - Relating to the redirection of certain Lottery revenues to the State Excess Lottery Revenue Fund HB 4267 - Legalizing and regulating the sale and use of fireworks and creating the West Virginia Veterans Program Fund HB 4282 - Relating to levels of funding to the Revenue Shortfall Reserve Fund HB 4296 - Establishing the Health Sciences Service Program HB 4299 - Removing the expiration date for the tax rate on eligible acute care hospitals HB 4322 - Establishing a retired teachers instant lottery scratch-off game HB 4333 - Relating to the redirection of certain Lottery revenues to the State Excess Lottery Revenue Fund HB 4339 - Ensuring that moneys from the Solid Waste Authority Closure Cost Assistance Fund are available to facilitate the closure of the El HB 4348 - Enhancing civil legal services for the poor HB 4375 - West Virginia Voluntary Employee Retirement Accounts Program HB 4391 - Relating to Dealer Recovery Fund HB 4405 - Increasing the cap for collections into the land division special revenue account of the Department of Agriculture HB 4419 - Creating the West Virginia Children with Autism Trust Fund HB 4458 - Establishing the Tax Reduction Fund in the State Treasury HB 4480 - Relating to investment of the Acid Mine Drainage Fund HB 4481 - Removing restrictions on where certain lottery games may be played HB 4496 - Providing for the allocation of matching funds from future moneys deposited into the West Virginia Research Trust Fund HB 4511 - Distributing money that was set aside from the West Virginia Greyhound Breeder Development Fund HB 4530 - Adding additional requirements for notification relating to industrial facilities emergency event notification and access, and cre HB 4534 - Create a Historic Resort Hotel Employee Retirement Fund HB 4590 - Relating to the Volunteer Fire Departments Workers' Compensation Subsidy Program and the Volunteer Fire Department Workers' Compen

Funeral Services (19 Bills)HB 2442 - Requiring every internment or grave to identify the decedents' identity HB 4349 - Clarifying retirement dependent child scholarship and burial benefits under a Qualified Domestic Relations Order HB 4452 - Making it illegal for anyone to photograph a corpse except for certain legitimate purposes HB 4540 - Relating to embalmer licenses HB 4541 - Relating to funeral service and embalming licenses HB 4542 - Changing certain dates related to requirements for funeral service licenses HB 4543 - Relating to the board of Funeral Service Examiners HB 4544 - Requiring the Board of Funeral Service Examiners to post notice on its website of any disciplinary action resulting in sanctions a

Gaming Activities (22 Bills)HB 2018 - Requiring racetracks who are licensed to operate video lottery terminals pay a fee of one thousand dollars for each machine and th HB 2132 - Permitting the racing commission to regulate charity racing events HB 3017 - Requiring the State Fire Marshal to propose rules for legislative approval to set standards for minimum acceptable fire company on HB 3084 - Relating to restricted races at pari-mutuel thoroughbred horse race tracks HB 4322 - Establishing a retired teachers instant lottery scratch-off game HB 4325 - Establishing the state parks instant lottery scratch-off game HB 4333 - Relating to the redirection of certain Lottery revenues to the State Excess Lottery Revenue Fund HB 4376 - Changing from two to three percent of purse money paid to the local Horsemen's Benevolent and Protective Association HB 4421 - Allowing the lottery to pay prizes utilizing other payment methods in addition to checks HB 4481 - Removing restrictions on where certain lottery games may be played HB 4483 - Removing limitations on advertising and promotional activities by limited video lottery retailers HB 4507 - Providing that the identity of a lottery winner may not be publicly disclosed HB 4511 - Distributing money that was set aside from the West Virginia Greyhound Breeder Development Fund HB 4617 - Permitting a decrease in the number of dates required for a horse or dog race meeting license application when certain agreement e

Governmental Agencies (16 Bills)HB 2185 - Requiring insurance coverage of spouses and dependents for pregnancy and contraceptive services HB 2218 - Restricting certain aid to the Armed Forces of the United States by West Virginia agencies HB 2408 - Requiring all state boards, commissions, committees or councils to be gender balanced and to have proportionate representation of HB 2742 - Providing for the redistricting office of the Joint Committee on Government and Finance to propose redistricting plans during cens HB 2813 - Relating generally to the purchasing division HB 2882 - Creating the Budget Reform Act HB 4213 - Moving the Children's Health Insurance Program ("CHIP") from the Department of Administration to the Department of Health and Huma HB 4215 - Requiring the Director of the Purchasing Division's direct purchases be consistent with the other requirements of the purchasing p HB 4235 - Creating new code sections which separate the executive departments HB 4263 - Providing for the transfer of ownership, operation and maintenance of certain assets of the West Virginia Parkways Authority to th HB 4266 - Relating to the redirection of certain Lottery revenues to the State Excess Lottery Revenue Fund HB 4280 - Relating to the Department of Health and Human Resources HB 4317 - Relating to state procurement HB 4358 - Requiring an agency to review rules every four years and, when necessary, provide revisions HB 4374 - Permitting purchases up to $100,000 without competitive bids HB 4426 - Relating to contested cases HB 4447 - Relating to state procurement

Governor (24 Bills)HB 2045 - Authorizing the Governor to appoint an additional member to the Surface Mine Board that represents the interest of labor HB 2225 - Creating a procedure by which the Governor or other elected member of the Board of Public Works can declare themselves disabled or HB 2904 - Creating a State Employee Ombudsman HB 3082 - Providing a limit on consulting fees HB 4146 - Creating the Governor's Committee on School Board Unification HB 4282 - Relating to levels of funding to the Revenue Shortfall Reserve Fund

Governor -- Bills Requested By (31 Bills)HB 4147 - Relating to emergency preparedness HB 4148 - Repealing the Strategic Research and Development Tax Credit HB 4149 - Allowing members of the Board of Public Works to be represented by designees and to vote by proxy HB 4150 - Allowing the state to pay its employees every two weeks instead of twice per month HB 4151 - Relating to military members and their spouses who obtain licensure through professional boards HB 4152 - Requiring all operators of the underground facilities in this state to participate in the one-call system HB 4153 - Providing that the State Fire Marshal shall serve at the will and pleasure of the fire commission HB 4154 - Fixing a technical error relating to the motor fuel excise tax HB 4155 - Suspending payments of the refundable exemption to the West Virginia consumers sales and service tax to the State Road Fund for fi HB 4156 - Electronic Toll Collection Act HB 4157 - Extending the cessation of deposits into the Special Railroad and Intermodal Enhancement Fund HB 4158 - Providing accelerated payment of consumers sales and service and use tax and employee withholding taxes HB 4159 - Updating the meaning of federal adjusted gross income and certain other terms HB 4160 - Reducing the amount deducted as an allowance for usual losses in collections for purposes of calculating local share HB 4174 - Updating the meaning of federal adjusted gross income and certain other terms used in the West Virginia Corporation Net Income Tax HB 4176 - Making a supplementary appropriation to the Department of Health and Human Resources, Division of Human Services HB 4177 - Making a supplementary appropriation to various agencies HB 4178 - Making a supplementary appropriation to the Department of Commerce, WorkForce West Virginia HB 4179 - Expiring funds to the unappropriated surplus balance in the State Fund, General Revenue HB 4180 - Supplementing, amending, decreasing, adding a new item, and expiring items of appropriation in certain accounts HB 4181 - Making a supplementary appropriation to the Division of Natural Resources, and to the Bureau for Senior Services HB 4182 - Supplementing, amending, increasing, decreasing, and adding items of appropriations in various accounts HB 4183 - Supplementing, amending, decreasing, and increasing items of the existing appropriations from the State Road Fund to the Departmen HB 4184 - Relating to the West Virginia Tourism Development Act HB 4185 - Implementing purchasing reforms HB 4213 - Moving the Children's Health Insurance Program ("CHIP") from the Department of Administration to the Department of Health and Huma HB 4256 - Amending the annual salary schedule for members of the state police HB 4257 - Providing criminal penalties for the dissemination of false, misleading or deceptive information through automated telephone calls HB 4258 - Creating a source water protection program and an industrial aboveground storage tank program to protect source water supplies and HB 4260 - Eliminating unnecessary boards HB 4261 - Relating to teacher and school service personnel salary increases HB 4266 - Relating to the redirection of certain Lottery revenues to the State Excess Lottery Revenue Fund HB 4281 - Relating to education reform HB 4282 - Relating to levels of funding to the Revenue Shortfall Reserve Fund HB 4333 - Relating to the redirection of certain Lottery revenues to the State Excess Lottery Revenue Fund

Hazardous Materials (1 Bills)HB 2292 - Requiring the Department of Environmental Protection to remediate any waste tire pile in the state consisting of more than twenty- HB 2423 - Allowing county fire companies and departments to charge reasonable reimbursement fees

Health (And Related Subheadings) (18 Bills)HB 2303 - Requiring all high schools include in their health classes a course in fetal development HB 2371 - Prohibiting the performance of any abortion when the woman seeking it is doing so solely on account of the gender of the fetus HB 2485 - Requiring health care providers to release unemancipated minor's medical records for drug testing to a parent or legal guardian wi

Health -- Facilities (4 Bills)HB 2242 - Requiring abortion facilities to have certain written policies and procedures HB 2243 - Requiring that abortions be performed in hospitals or by physicians with admitting privileges to a hospital within the local servi HB 2302 - Providing a personal income tax modification for certain retirees who are in long-term care facilities HB 2322 - Providing a mechanism whereby unused, unexpired nonnarcotic drugs previously owned by a deceased nursing home patient or resident HB 2797 - Eliminating the requirement that health facilities receive a certificate of need before opening HB 3155 - Establishing a definition of "no significant additional fiscal burden" in the minimum criteria for certificate of need reviews HB 4163 - Requiring outpatient surgical facilities to meet the same facility and surgical standards as ambulatory surgical facilities HB 4249 - Allowing proceeds of a hotel occupancy tax not exceeding $200,000 per fiscal year to be expended for medical care and emergency se HB 4299 - Removing the expiration date for the tax rate on eligible acute care hospitals HB 4332 - Extending the time that certain nonprofit community groups are exempt from the moratorium on creating new nursing home beds HB 4603 - Patient Injury Act

Holidays (4 Bills)HB 2068 - Adding a special memorial day to celebrate the victory of democracy in the Cold War

Homeland Security (24 Bills)HB 2871 - Providing that West Virginia will not participate in the REAL ID Act of 2005 HB 4147 - Relating to emergency preparedness HB 4175 - West Virginia Small Business Emergency Act

Human Services (9 Bills)HB 2123 - Requiring the DHHR to annually review and adjust rates it pays to care providers HB 2155 - Making grants from state and other funds to provide civil legal services to low income persons HB 2177 - Authorizing a responsible parent pilot project HB 2311 - Permitting the state to opt out of a federal statute that would otherwise not allow a state resident who has been convicted of a f HB 2349 - Increasing the number of child protective service workers HB 2445 - Providing permanent total disability recipients annual cost-of-living allowances HB 2475 - Requiring the DHHR to provide matching funds for trust income disbursed to support autistic minors HB 2527 - Creating a drug testing program for applicants and recipients of temporary assistance for needy families cash benefits HB 2599 - Prohibiting recipients of state assistance under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program from purchasing sugary soft drinks HB 2773 - Relating to state responsibilities for the protection and care of children HB 3146 - Implementing drug testing for recipients of federal-state and state assistance HB 3147 - Requiring health insurance coverage for eosinophilic disorders HB 4125 - Providing for the collection of certain fees dedicated to pay civil legal fees for low income persons HB 4213 - Moving the Children's Health Insurance Program ("CHIP") from the Department of Administration to the Department of Health and Huma HB 4280 - Relating to the Department of Health and Human Resources HB 4297 - Relating to the operation and oversight of certain benefit programs HB 4348 - Enhancing civil legal services for the poor HB 4418 - Career ladder for direct service workers HB 4433 - Implementing drug testing for recipients of federal-state and state assistance HB 4504 - Providing for sharing juvenile records in certain circumstances with another state HB 4537 - West Virginia CARES Act HB 4565 - Requiring the circuit court , when appointing counsel for alleged protected persons, to make appointments from a listing of all i

Insurance -- Medicaid/Medicare (19 Bills)HB 3036 - Improving program integrity for Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program HB 4217 - Relating to Medicaid reports to the Legislature HB 4596 - Continuing the fraud control unit in the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit

Insurance -- Motor Vehicles (3 Bills)HB 2439 - Determining the value of a motor vehicle in a claim HB 2823 - Increasing the minimum proof of financial responsibility in motor vehicle insurance coverage HB 2990 - Relating to insurance or other security required for registration or operation of a motor vehicle HB 4478 - Requiring a certificate of insurance to be in effect during the entire term of the vehicle registration period

Insurance -- Public Employees (22 Bills)HB 2219 - Providing that members of the Legislature whose income is limited to their legislative compensation may be covered at the same rat HB 2418 - Requiring the Public Employees Insurance Agency and its contractors, under certain circumstances, to advertise that they are seeki

Insurance (And Related Subheadings) (2 Bills)HB 2039 - Giving the Insurance Commissioner the power to regulate and penalize self-insured employers HB 2055 - Increasing the amount of mine subsidence insurance reinsured by the board of risk management HB 2078 - Prohibiting the use of a credit score in casualty insurance rate filings HB 2282 - Prohibiting the use of a person's credit history in insurance transactions HB 2299 - Requiring certain insurance companies to participate in information data matches with the Bureau of Child Support Enforcement HB 2301 - Prohibiting declination or termination of property insurance based solely upon a home owner's possession of a certain breed of dog HB 2410 - Prohibiting declination, cancellation or nonrenewal of a property insurance policy if the insured does not file a claim relating HB 2496 - West Virginia School Personnel Survivor Benefit Act HB 2551 - Prohibiting insurers from increasing premiums following payment of a claim in certain circumstances HB 2794 - Prohibiting declination or termination of property insurance based solely upon a home owner's possession of a certain breed of dog HB 2972 - Providing for structured settlements for minors who are injured or otherwise suffer a loss HB 3010 - Limiting the use of credit information in connection with the declination and termination of property insurance HB 4204 - Relating to the nonrenewal or cancellation of property insurance coverage policies in force for at least four years HB 4311 - Preventing taxpayer subsidization of health insurance covering elective abortions HB 4359 - Relating to licensure of managing general agents of insurers HB 4432 - Adopting Principle Based Reserving as the method by which life insurance company reserves are calculated HB 4487 - Relating to travel insurance limited lines producers HB 4559 - Taking back the surcharge on fire and casualty insurance policies to one percent HB 4580 - Removing immunity language and acknowledging the duty to act in good faith and fair dealing in the administration of insurance cla

Investments (1 Bills)HB 2846 - Removing investment restrictions on foreign securities HB 2974 - Relating to a tax deduction allowed for capital expenditures from the corporate net income tax HB 3040 - Relating generally to the tax treatment of manufacturing entities HB 3068 - Expanding the property appraisal provisions to include qualified capital additions to coal production facilities HB 3097 - Entitling natural resource producers to the economic opportunity tax credit HB 4435 - Adding West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine to the list of state institutions of higher education that are permitted to in HB 4492 - Relating to investment of moneys by the West Virginia Investment Management Board HB 4526 - Extending and expanding economic development programs of the West Virginia Jobs Investment Trust Fund

Labor (5 Bills)HB 2003 - Providing an employee the right to decline to work more than forty hours in a workweek HB 2010 - Prohibiting employers and labor unions from requiring employees to become or remain members of labor unions as a condition of empl HB 2039 - Giving the Insurance Commissioner the power to regulate and penalize self-insured employers HB 2045 - Authorizing the Governor to appoint an additional member to the Surface Mine Board that represents the interest of labor HB 2047 - Verifying legal employment status of workers HB 2054 - The Healthy and Safe Workplace Act HB 2085 - Exempting certain construction projects performed on behalf of county or municipal governments from the prevailing wage laws HB 2128 - Providing railroad employees have the right to review and copy the contents of their personnel file HB 2175 - Requiring certain licensees to take continuing education in green building HB 2295 - Prohibiting project labor agreements on state-funded construction contracts HB 2575 - Setting West Virginia prevailing wage rates by county HB 2576 - Repealing requirements that prevailing wages be paid in connection with the construction of public improvements HB 2596 - Establishing the West Virginia Right to Work Law HB 2752 - Exempting construction performed on behalf of educational authorities from prevailing wage requirements HB 2753 - Establishing prevailing hourly rates to be used in connection with the construction of public improvements HB 2952 - Work Share West Virginia HB 3053 - Relating to the labor-management relations act for the private sector HB 3085 - Requiring persons engaged in natural gas horizontal well drilling activities to annually submit a report to the Department of Labo HB 3156 - Granting a labor organization a privilege from being compelled to disclose any communication or information the labor organization HB 4203 - Allowing a grievant a reasonable time for a representative to be summoned and appear, and clarifying that participation in grievan HB 4284 - Pregnant Workers' Fairness Act HB 4323 - Establishing requirements for prior review of all privatization proposals HB 4353 - Requiring completion of an Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) approved 10-hour construction safety program prior HB 4409 - Creating the Valued Employee Retention program HB 4571 - Requiring the Commissioner of Labor to conduct a study on workplace accidents at construction sites

Languages (8 Bills)HB 2106 - Making English the official language of West Virginia HB 2473 - Requiring all state activities and records to be in English

Law Enforcement (And Related Subheadings) (12 Bills)HB 2011 - Establishing threshold quantities of certain controlled substances to trigger prima facie evidence of intent to deliver if possess HB 2037 - Increasing the minimum sentence for maliciously assaults a government representative HB 2058 - Providing for the temporary detention of criminal suspects by law-enforcement officers where probable cause appears to exist HB 2122 - Issuing a special "Family of an Officer Killed in the Line of Duty" license plate HB 2380 - Relating to meeting and conference rights for members of police or fire departments employed by political subdivisions

Law Enforcement -- County/Municipal (44 Bills)HB 2082 - Prohibiting a cheif deputy sheriff from engaging in certain political activities HB 2327 - Adding the county sheriff, or his or her designee, to those law-enforcement officials who are granted access to certain confidenti HB 2353 - Clarifying an exception that allow sheriffs to collect property taxes in more than two installments HB 4602 - Relating to the powers and authority of state and local law enforcement to enforce underage drinking laws at private clubs

Law Enforcement -- State Police (14 Bills)HB 2075 - Increasing compensation of membership of the West Virginia State Police HB 2095 - Increasing salaries for state police forensic lab employees HB 2133 - Requiring that State Police officers be compensated for time when they are required to be on standby HB 2147 - Establishing a minimum number of troopers to provide basic law enforcement services, and providing members of the West Virginia St HB 2226 - Requiring that State Police officers be compensated for time when they are required to be on standby and providing a stipend for h HB 2232 - Requiring the Superintendent of the State Police to implement a plan to increase the number of troopers HB 2327 - Adding the county sheriff, or his or her designee, to those law-enforcement officials who are granted access to certain confidenti HB 2367 - Establishing a West Virginia State Trooper's Association leave donation program HB 2891 - Relating to scholarships for dependent children of state troopers who die in performance of duty HB 4212 - Establishing a methamphetamine registry HB 4256 - Amending the annual salary schedule for members of the state police HB 4345 - Relating to the West Virginia State Police Retirement System HB 4408 - Relating to salaries and raises for employees within the West Virginia State Police Forensic Laboratory HB 4425 - Giving the Superintendent of State Police authority to hire additional staff HB 4524 - Creating within the State Police a methamphetamine registry HB 4550 - Providing educational incentives and longevity pay for state troopers HB 4602 - Relating to the powers and authority of state and local law enforcement to enforce underage drinking laws at private clubs

Law Enforcement (And Related Subheadings) (19 Bills)HB 2070 - Allowing the use of traffic law photo-monitoring devices HB 2247 - Relating to residency requirements for persons appointed as campus police officers HB 2330 - Permitting a retired police officer to be hired as a chief of police and continue to receive retirement benefits HB 4207 - Clarifying what evidence obtained by law-enforcement officers, with instruments using microwaves or reflected light, may be used t HB 4251 - Prohibiting the ticketing of cars parked at broken meters HB 4310 - Making gun permits and applications confidential except for law enforcement purposes HB 4437 - Relating to the Division of Juvenile Services HB 4442 - Adding law-enforcement officers' personal information to the list of FOIA exemptions HB 4501 - Providing that law-enforcement officers employed as school security be allowed to carry firearms on school property under certain HB 4569 - Forfeiture Reporting Act HB 4594 - Authorizing the issuance of a subpoena duces tecum to a law-enforcement agency for documents or objects in aid of a criminal inves HB 4595 - Relating to forfeiture of contraband moneys

Legislature (11 Bills)HB 2031 - Relating to certain members of the Legislature and certain service by members of the Legislature HB 2219 - Providing that members of the Legislature whose income is limited to their legislative compensation may be covered at the same rat HB 2259 - Requiring persons giving testimony or providing information to the Legislature to attest to the truthfulness of the testimony HB 2405 - Redistricting of the House of Delegates into one hundred single member districts after the 2020 census HB 2568 - Authorizing the Legislature to add a nonbinding advisory referendum ballot issue HB 2742 - Providing for the redistricting office of the Joint Committee on Government and Finance to propose redistricting plans during cens HB 2748 - Requiring the reporting and publication of all compensation, including the source of that compensation, paid to lobbyists HB 2796 - Requiring lobbyists to disclose compensation agreements HB 2854 - Relating to reentry into the Public Employees Retirement System by members of the Legislature HB 3029 - Providing a procedure for West Virginia to select delegates to an Article V convention for proposing amendments to the Constitutio HB 4117 - Eliminating eligibility for participation in the Public Employees Retirement System for those newly elected or appointed as member HB 4118 - Redistricting of the Senate into thirty four single senatorial districts HB 4119 - Reducing compensation of state legislators HB 4354 - Requiring the reporting and publication of all compensation, including contingent compensation, paid to lobbyists HB 4388 - Prohibiting certain political fund-raising activities for members of the Legislature during certain periods of time

Levies (21 Bills)HB 2993 - Allowing counties and municipalities to levy a sales tax on food and beverages sold at restaurants HB 4259 - Extending the time for the city council of the city of Sistersville, Tyler County, to meet as a levying body

Libraries (3 Bills)HB 2006 - Permitting counties, county boards of education and municipalities to impose an additional levy HB 2053 - Requiring county boards of education to employ a certified library media specialist in each county school HB 2416 - Authorizing the School Building Authority to award grants or moneys to county and local library boards in connection with public l HB 2592 - Establishing a Library Facilities Improvement Fund HB 3111 - Relating to computing local share of public education support HB 4002 - Relating to the computation of local share for public school support purposes HB 4160 - Reducing the amount deducted as an allowance for usual losses in collections for purposes of calculating local share

Licenses (3 Bills)HB 2040 - Providing that when a person from another state writes a worthless check in this state which results in a summons to appear in mag HB 2175 - Requiring certain licensees to take continuing education in green building HB 2246 - Providing that a Class B resident fishing license and a Class F nonresident fishing license are effective one year from the date o HB 2317 - Relating to the issuance of driver's licenses and disposition HB 2552 - Providing an exception to magistrates and municipal court judges from the requirement of having a license to carry a concealed wea HB 2584 - Relating to licensing board accounts HB 2788 - Requiring that all attorneys employed by the State of West Virginia in legal positions paying $100,000 or more must have a license HB 2792 - Creating a hunting license permitting crossbow hunting HB 2834 - Exempting valid nonprofit organizations from licensing requirements of the West Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Authority duri HB 2911 - Exempting records of concealed weapon license applications and issuance from disclosure under the West Virginia Freedom of Inform HB 2967 - Prohibiting the publication of the identities of persons who have been issued licenses to carry a concealed deadly weapon HB 3030 - Relating to Class XS senior resident lifetime licenses HB 3108 - Relating to criminal background checks on applicants for employment by nursing homes HB 4116 - Permitting certain owners of residential real estate a limited exemption from certain licensing requirements HB 4124 - Relating to required orientation sessions for state licensing boards HB 4141 - Relating to licenses to sell paraphernalia for use with controlled substances HB 4145 - Creating a hunting license permitting crossbow hunting HB 4151 - Relating to military members and their spouses who obtain licensure through professional boards HB 4164 - Relating to professional licensure, certification or registration of persons and spouses of persons on military active duty outsi HB 4224 - Making changes to the definition of electrical contractor HB 4243 - Including the resident grandchildren of bona fide resident landowners as persons who are not required to obtain licenses or permit HB 4301 - Allowing limited reciprocal use of hunting and fishing licenses with the Commonwealth of Kentucky HB 4306 - Discontinuing the moratorium on the issuance of commercial rafting licenses on a section of the New River HB 4359 - Relating to licensure of managing general agents of insurers HB 4412 - Relating to special one-day licenses for charitable events to sell nonintoxicating beer or wine HB 4413 - Requiring that athletic trainers be licensed HB 4431 - Clarifying that persons who possess firearms, hunting dogs or other indicia of hunting do not necessarily need to have a hunting HB 4467 - Relating to exempting individuals employed by a county board of education from plumbing licensing requirements while performing pl HB 4476 - Allowing any person who was born in West Virginia to purchase a resident lifetime hunting, trapping or fishing license HB 4500 - Relating to requirements for business registration HB 4529 - Relating to the sale of wine HB 4533 - Providing a fee discount for certain nonresident hunting, fishing and trapping licenses for native nonresidents HB 4538 - Relating to the Board of Dentistry HB 4540 - Relating to embalmer licenses HB 4541 - Relating to funeral service and embalming licenses HB 4542 - Changing certain dates related to requirements for funeral service licenses HB 4544 - Requiring the Board of Funeral Service Examiners to post notice on its website of any disciplinary action resulting in sanctions a HB 4575 - Relating to the West Virginia Contractor Licensing Act HB 4587 - Relating to food handlers' licenses

Liens (6 Bills)HB 2038 - Clarifying the notice and service requirements for a notice to redeem to be provided to the delinquent taxpayer at the mailing ad HB 2120 - Prohibiting the publication of the consideration paid for the sale of real estate or the amount of any lien on the real property s HB 2313 - Permitting surface owners to purchase the mineral interests that lay below the property when the mineral interest becomes subject HB 2947 - Permitting surface owners to purchase the mineral interests that lay below the property in certain circumstances HB 3037 - Relating to the form of trust deeds HB 4347 - Relating to affirmative defenses against mechanics' liens HB 4417 - Relating to liens on vehicles

Local Bills (7 Bills)HB 3000 - Changing the Martinsburg public library to the Martinsburg-Berkeley County Public Library HB 4242 - Increasing gross weight limitations on certain roads in Brooke County HB 4259 - Extending the time for the city council of the city of Sistersville, Tyler County, to meet as a levying body

Military Affairs (19 Bills)HB 2094 - Allowing members of the West Virginia National Guard or its reserves to obtain free hunting and fishing licenses HB 2103 - Allowing a disabled veteran one additional license plate HB 2117 - Income tax exemption for veterans who locate in West Virginia following separation from service HB 2149 - Extending the expiration of driver's licenses for active military members' spouses HB 2162 - Relating to educational benefits for dependents of deceased or disabled veterans HB 2165 - Relating to death certificates of military veterans HB 2218 - Restricting certain aid to the Armed Forces of the United States by West Virginia agencies HB 2248 - Establishing a program to promote veteran friendly communities HB 2273 - Limiting the liability of military personnel who respond to local emergencies and calls for assistance HB 2339 - Removing the armed conflict requirement before state employees may receive credit for time served in the Armed Forces HB 2370 - Providing that municipal employees may receive up to two years of retirement service credit for military service HB 2372 - Relating to disposition of the remains of a deceased military service member who dies while serving HB 2379 - Exempting disabled veterans from campground rental fees during certain times HB 2402 - Exempting disabled veterans who have suffered a hundred percent total and permanent service-connected disability from state incom HB 2422 - Providing an additional decreasing modification reducing federal adjusted gross income for income earned by certain military perso HB 2728 - Allowing a disabled veteran to park in a designated accessible parking space without placard HB 2870 - Providing a discount on state campground rentals for veterans HB 2880 - Relating to provide special outdoor recreational opportunities for eligible veterans HB 2922 - Issuing of special veterans vanity registration plates for motorcycles HB 2955 - Traumatic Brain Injury Services Commission HB 2981 - Providing that historical reenactors are not violating the provision prohibiting unlawful military organizations HB 3002 - Requiring the Parkways Authority to provide free daily toll passes for veterans under certain circumstances HB 3005 - Requiring any employer to retain a job for any veteran with a service-connected disability HB 3006 - Retaining jobs for certain disabled veterans HB 3007 - Relating to job retention for any veteran with a service-connected disability while seeking or receiving treatment HB 4151 - Relating to military members and their spouses who obtain licensure through professional boards HB 4164 - Relating to professional licensure, certification or registration of persons and spouses of persons on military active duty outsi HB 4267 - Legalizing and regulating the sale and use of fireworks and creating the West Virginia Veterans Program Fund HB 4268 - Relating to the administration of veterans' assistance HB 4318 - Continuing education of veterans mental health HB 4350 - Providing for the awarding of a West Virginia Veterans Medal and ribbon, and a West Virginia Service Cross and ribbon to certain q HB 4361 - Allowing members of the Legislature who are away serving in the Armed Forces to participate and vote via electronic teleconferenci HB 4439 - Granting the Department of Agriculture the authority to create and maintain a program to encourage, support and develop West Virgi HB 4451 - Continuing the Office of Emergency Medical Services as an independent office within the Department of Military Affairs and Public HB 4536 - Retaining current West Virginia National Guard firefighters HB 4545 - Relating to personal income tax

Mines and Minerals (16 Bills)HB 2021 - Requiring the Mine Foreman Examiner review the employment history and certify that the applicant for the position of underground a HB 2045 - Authorizing the Governor to appoint an additional member to the Surface Mine Board that represents the interest of labor HB 2055 - Increasing the amount of mine subsidence insurance reinsured by the board of risk management HB 2073 - Requiring that permanent and temporary battery charging stations in mines be ventilated directly to the return on a separate split HB 2114 - Relating to revocation of current and future horizontal well permits HB 2138 - Permitting mineral owners and producers to negotiate a new lease under certain conditions HB 2143 - Requiring liners in all new surface coal-waste impoundments and requiring regulations relating to the planning, constructing and m HB 2183 - Requiring all final actions by the Department of Environmental Protection regarding coal mine permits to be completed within six m HB 2208 - Prohibiting underground injection of coal slurry in new permits or modifications and renewals HB 2214 - Intrastate Coal and Use Act HB 2263 - Permitting surface owners to receive a two percent royalty for minerals extracted HB 2286 - Allowing the Division of Energy to develop an energy related public relations campaign focused on educating the Washington, D.C. a HB 2313 - Permitting surface owners to purchase the mineral interests that lay below the property when the mineral interest becomes subject HB 2419 - Relating to dual liner requirements HB 2535 - Creating the "Intrastate Coal and Use Act" and the "Intrastate Oil and Natural Gas and Use Act" HB 2826 - Relating to the state's jurisdiction over reclaimed sites of bond-forfeited surface mining operations HB 2862 - Relating to informal conferences on surface mining permit applications HB 2947 - Permitting surface owners to purchase the mineral interests that lay below the property in certain circumstances HB 2954 - Requiring that members of the Mine Safety Technology Task Force are paid the same compensation as members of the Legislature HB 3034 - Requiring underground mines fire boss examinations include examining the air quantity HB 3068 - Expanding the property appraisal provisions to include qualified capital additions to coal production facilities HB 3071 - Relating to civil penalties and civil administrative penalties for violations of the Water Pollution Control Act HB 3072 - West Virginia coal employment enhancement act HB 4172 - Reallocating and dedicating the coal severance tax revenues annually to the coal-producing counties of origin HB 4238 - Providing a tax credit to coal producers who sell coal to taxpayers who increase their consumption of West Virginia coal HB 4241 - Requiring employers subject to the jurisdiction of the Office of Miner's Health, Safety and Training to implement an alcohol abuse HB 4291 - Relating to civil penalties and civil administrative penalties for violations of the Water Pollution Control Act by coal mining HB 4382 - Establishing the Legislative Oversight Commission on Energy Workers Safety HB 4429 - Requiring that mining equipment being transported or trammed underground be done by qualified personnel under supervision of a cer HB 4449 - Including proximity detection systems and cameras used on continuous mining machines and underground haulage equipment for tax cre HB 4469 - Requiring the Director of the Division of Energy to develop an energy independence policy that ensures all oil, gas and coal produ HB 4480 - Relating to investment of the Acid Mine Drainage Fund HB 4494 - Relating to Emergency Medical Technicians - Mining HB 4551 - Relating to methane protections in underground mines HB 4570 - Relating to underground coal mines HB 4589 - Relating to the West Virginia Diesel Equipment Commission

Motor Vehicles (And Related Subheadings) (77 Bills)HB 2107 - Exempting county school boards of education school buses from paying tolls for transit over the West Virginia Turnpike or any park HB 2279 - Relating to towing companies notifying the DMV of abandoned vehicles HB 2320 - Giving local authorities the authority to decrease the speed limit on streets and highways where school buses travel in its jurisd

Motor Vehicles -- Driving Under Influence (1 Bills)HB 2500 - Increasing the penalty for driving under the influence causing death HB 3074 - Increasing the criminal penalties for the offenses of driving under the influence of alcohol, controlled substances or drugs; "And HB 4211 - DUI vehicle seizure HB 4223 - Requiring the issuance of a search warrant before a driver of a motor vehicle can be made to submit to a secondary blood test HB 4248 - Requiring a criminal penalty for all first offenses of driving under the influence of alcohol, controlled substances or drugs HB 4377 - Relating to the participation in the Motor Vehicle Alcohol Test and Lock Program HB 4427 - Relating to hearings before the Office of Administrative Hearings

Motor Vehicles -- Licenses, Registration & Inspection (20 Bills)HB 2004 - Exempting nonprofit organizations from paying an annual motor vehicle registration fee HB 2103 - Allowing a disabled veteran one additional license plate HB 2122 - Issuing a special "Family of an Officer Killed in the Line of Duty" license plate HB 2149 - Extending the expiration of driver's licenses for active military members' spouses HB 2317 - Relating to the issuance of driver's licenses and disposition HB 2345 - Authorizing the Division of Motor Vehicles to issue a special license plate for applicants who are hearing impaired HB 2493 - Relating to driver's licensing HB 2522 - Issuing a special "HATFIELD and MCCOY" license plate HB 2528 - Requiring holders of graduated driver's licenses to pass drug tests HB 2719 - Authorizing the Division of Motor Vehicles to issue special registration plates that read "In God We Trust" HB 2798 - Authorizing the Division of Motor Vehicles to issue a special "SECOND AMENDMENT" license plate HB 2859 - Authorizing the Commissioner to issue no more than ten additional special demonstration plates used by new and used dealers of lar HB 2871 - Providing that West Virginia will not participate in the REAL ID Act of 2005 HB 2990 - Relating to insurance or other security required for registration or operation of a motor vehicle HB 4225 - Providing for emergency contact information on driver's license records with the Division of Motor Vehicles HB 4253 - Authorizing the issuance of special "In God We Trust" registration plates HB 4262 - Authorizing the Division of Motor Vehicles to issue a special license plate for applicants who are deaf or hearing impaired HB 4265 - Defining collector motor vehicle and a motor vehicle collector HB 4368 - Relating to issuance and renewal of driver's licenses HB 4379 - Authorizing the issuance of special "Family of Fallen Hero" registration plates HB 4461 - Relating to authorizing the issuance of special "Homeland Security and Emergency Management" registration plates HB 4478 - Requiring a certificate of insurance to be in effect during the entire term of the vehicle registration period HB 4604 - Providing discounted motor vehicle registration fees for members of volunteer fire departments

Motor Vehicles -- Regulations (15 Bills)HB 2040 - Providing that when a person from another state writes a worthless check in this state which results in a summons to appear in mag HB 2051 - Requiring a preliminary breath analysis for the purpose of determining the blood alcohol content of a surviving driver HB 2472 - Increasing the speed limit from 60 mph to 70 mph on a specific section of I-77 HB 2477 - Permitting certain auxiliary lighting on motorcycles HB 2728 - Allowing a disabled veteran to park in a designated accessible parking space without placard HB 2772 - Permitting motorcyclists and bicyclists to safely proceed through a traffic light if they have waited a minimum of two minutes HB 2785 - Creating the "Safe and Efficient Parkways Act" (SEPA) HB 2859 - Authorizing the Commissioner to issue no more than ten additional special demonstration plates used by new and used dealers of lar HB 3057 - Establishing the offense of operating a motor vehicle using a wearable computer with a head-mounted display HB 3109 - Prohibiting a person from driving in the passing lane of a highway when not passing another vehicle under certain circumstances HB 4194 - Relating to the adoption of rules for traffic control signals HB 4206 - Providing that "van accessible" mobility impaired parking spaces may be used only by a van HB 4207 - Clarifying what evidence obtained by law-enforcement officers, with instruments using microwaves or reflected light, may be used t HB 4233 - Relating to unattended motor vehicles HB 4242 - Increasing gross weight limitations on certain roads in Brooke County HB 4251 - Prohibiting the ticketing of cars parked at broken meters HB 4304 - Providing rules for motor vehicles passing bicycles on roadways HB 4370 - Requiring used vehicle dealers to provide vehicle history reports to prospective buyers of formerly recalled vehicles HB 4407 - Establishing when it is permissible to operate a motor vehicle in the left lane on a controlled-access highway HB 4539 - Requiring motor vehicles to stop when a public transportation vehicle is stopped and receiving or dropping off passengers

Motor Vehicles -- Taxation (2 Bills)HB 2150 - Taxing of utility terrain vehicles HB 2180 - Exempting from the sales and use tax special equipment installed in a motor vehicle for the use of a person with physical disabili HB 2443 - Exempting antique cars from taxation and fees HB 2817 - Relating generally to use of alternative-fuel motor vehicles HB 2921 - Providing an exemption on sales of motor vehicles using natural gas or dual purpose motor vehicles using a combination of gasoline HB 4008 - Permitting a business that owns motor vehicles to have the value of those vehicles assessed in the tax district where the business HB 4424 - Requiring all classic and antique motor vehicles be assessed at a flat rate of $1,000

Motor Vehicles (And Related Subheadings) (12 Bills)HB 2070 - Allowing the use of traffic law photo-monitoring devices HB 2127 - Prohibiting the modification of mufflers resulting in excessive noise levels HB 2785 - Creating the "Safe and Efficient Parkways Act" (SEPA) HB 2860 - Providing that a municipality receive no more than $25 from speeding fines HB 2885 - Prohibiting the use of the name or likeness of elected or appointed officials on publicly-owned vehicles HB 2922 - Issuing of special veterans vanity registration plates for motorcycles HB 4362 - Prohibiting smoking in a motor vehicle when a child is present HB 4373 - Relating to driver education programs HB 4391 - Relating to Dealer Recovery Fund HB 4417 - Relating to liens on vehicles HB 4517 - Relating to cancelling certificates of title for certain mobile and manufactured homes HB 4611 - Updating and clarifying the article of the code relating to motor vehicle dealers, distributors, wholesalers and manufacturers

Municipalities (6 Bills)HB 2001 - Providing meetings and conference rights for members of municipal fire departments HB 2067 - Providing misdemeanor criminal penalty for failing to comply with law regarding sale, lease or disposition of municipal property HB 2085 - Exempting certain construction projects performed on behalf of county or municipal governments from the prevailing wage laws HB 2137 - Enacting zoning ordinances that regulate drilling and hydraulic fracturing activity HB 2330 - Permitting a retired police officer to be hired as a chief of police and continue to receive retirement benefits HB 2370 - Providing that municipal employees may receive up to two years of retirement service credit for military service HB 2380 - Relating to meeting and conference rights for members of police or fire departments employed by political subdivisions HB 2500 - Increasing the penalty for driving under the influence causing death HB 2552 - Providing an exception to magistrates and municipal court judges from the requirement of having a license to carry a concealed wea HB 2556 - Waiving the publication requirements of financial statements for Class IV municipalities HB 2558 - Removing the "grandfather" clause that excepts municipal ordinances limiting the purchase, possession, transfer, ownership, carryi HB 2774 - Relating to the effects of a criminal conviction and incarceration on a municipal officer HB 2860 - Providing that a municipality receive no more than $25 from speeding fines HB 3097 - Entitling natural resource producers to the economic opportunity tax credit HB 4129 - Relating to the sale of real property by the Division of Highways HB 4246 - Placing on the ballot of voters whether the municipality should hold its future municipal elections on a state general election da HB 4259 - Extending the time for the city council of the city of Sistersville, Tyler County, to meet as a levying body HB 4305 - Relating to the requirements of members of a building commission board be from the same political party HB 4308 - Relating to the Municipal Home Rule Pilot Program HB 4485 - Making it clear that municipalities have the power to both increase and decrease the number of voting wards and/or council members HB 4491 - Relating to where certificates of nomination are filed for municipal elections HB 4546 - Relating to rural community access to municipal or public service district water supplies

Natural Resources (27 Bills)HB 2094 - Allowing members of the West Virginia National Guard or its reserves to obtain free hunting and fishing licenses HB 2262 - Requiring operators of natural gas wells and surface owners to enter into surface use agreements HB 2283 - Providing that the amount of required acreage for bird hunting preserves may be one hundred acres for privately owned commercial s HB 2304 - Adding oil and gas facilities, wells, pipelines and tanks to the coordinated statewide program of air pollution prevention HB 2335 - Increasing compensation for conservation officers HB 3014 - Relating to pension benefits exempt from state income taxation HB 3015 - Providing an increase in compensation for natural resources police officers HB 3019 - Clarifying circumstances under which a person may possess certain firearms while afield hunting HB 3097 - Entitling natural resource producers to the economic opportunity tax credit HB 4145 - Creating a hunting license permitting crossbow hunting HB 4201 - Relating to civil and criminal penalties for violations of the Logging Sediment Control Act HB 4243 - Including the resident grandchildren of bona fide resident landowners as persons who are not required to obtain licenses or permit HB 4286 - Captive Cervid Farming Act HB 4293 - Regulating the importation and possession of certain injurious aquatic species HB 4306 - Discontinuing the moratorium on the issuance of commercial rafting licenses on a section of the New River HB 4378 - Relating to permits to kill deer or other wildlife causing damage to cultivated crops HB 4431 - Clarifying that persons who possess firearms, hunting dogs or other indicia of hunting do not necessarily need to have a hunting HB 4470 - Relating to tentative appraisals of natural resources property by the Tax Commissioner for ad valorem property tax purposes HB 4533 - Providing a fee discount for certain nonresident hunting, fishing and trapping licenses for native nonresidents

Oil and Gas (2 Bills)HB 2061 - Requiring operators to post a bond for each well and to condition the release of the bond HB 2062 - Studying the environmental and health impacts of shale gas development HB 2064 - Requiring a driller or owner of a natural gas well who contaminates a groundwater aquifer to remediate the aquifer until it meets HB 2066 - Requiring the posting of material data safety sheets and documentation of fracking fluid components HB 2114 - Relating to revocation of current and future horizontal well permits HB 2136 - Providing landowners of property adjacent to proposed well sites copies of the application, the erosion and sediment control plan HB 2137 - Enacting zoning ordinances that regulate drilling and hydraulic fracturing activity HB 2152 - Requiring flowback plans for all work on oil and gas wells HB 2255 - Studying injection induced seismic activity associated with to horizontal well drilling and waste injection HB 2256 - Establishing a cradle to grave monitoring system for withdrawals of water used in the development of natural wells HB 2257 - Creating a publicly accessible database of information relevant to all horizontally drilled wells HB 2258 - Requiring the center of all new gas wells to be more than one thousand feet from water wells or six hundred twenty-five feet from HB 2260 - Prohibiting the drilling of horizontal oil and gas wells beneath abandoned wells HB 2262 - Requiring operators of natural gas wells and surface owners to enter into surface use agreements HB 2280 - Requiring persons who are not members of the American Association of Professional Landmen to have two years or more of experience HB 2435 - Relating to severance taxes collected for privilege of producing oil or natural gas HB 2436 - Relating to liquefied petroleum gas-consuming equipment and appliances HB 2535 - Creating the "Intrastate Coal and Use Act" and the "Intrastate Oil and Natural Gas and Use Act" HB 2598 - Exempting heating oil for residential use from the Motor Fuel Excise Tax HB 2795 - Reallocating and dedicating three percent of oil and gas severance tax revenues HB 2893 - Relating to preservation of cemeteries HB 2917 - Making it an unfair trade practice to refuse to refill a propane gas tank HB 2918 - West Virginia Fair Health Insurance Act of 2013 HB 2925 - Relating to alternative fuel initiatives HB 2998 - Requiring natural gas lessors to provide surface owners the ability to purchase gas from those wells HB 3001 - Requiring a composite soil sampling and testing be performed on the ground area underneath a pit or impoundment after it has been HB 3046 - Requiring the Department of Environmental Protection to issue a procedural rule to allow surface owners a right to a hearing and a HB 3051 - Relating to fees charged for natural gas drilling waste fluids injected into underground injection control wells HB 3085 - Requiring persons engaged in natural gas horizontal well drilling activities to annually submit a report to the Department of Labo HB 4152 - Requiring all operators of the underground facilities in this state to participate in the one-call system HB 4227 - Requiring certification of correctness as to design, construction and performance of domestic and commercial liquefied petroleum g HB 4303 - Oil and Gas Drilling Workplace Safety Act HB 4346 - Establishing separate standards of performance for carbon dioxide emissions HB 4382 - Establishing the Legislative Oversight Commission on Energy Workers Safety HB 4411 - Allowing the disposal of drill cuttings and associated drilling waste generated from well sites in commercial solid waste faciliti HB 4469 - Requiring the Director of the Division of Energy to develop an energy independence policy that ensures all oil, gas and coal produ HB 4558 - Relating to oil and gas conservation

Parks and Recreation (39 Bills)HB 2060 - Increasing the soft drinks tax HB 2076 - Providing a ten percent discount to residents at state parks and forests HB 2107 - Exempting county school boards of education school buses from paying tolls for transit over the West Virginia Turnpike or any park HB 2572 - Clarifying circumstances under which a person may possess certain firearms while afield hunting HB 2792 - Creating a hunting license permitting crossbow hunting HB 2855 - Permitting persons sixty years of age and older to hunt deer with a crossbow HB 2870 - Providing a discount on state campground rentals for veterans HB 2878 - Clarifying that a valid West Virginia identification card is an acceptable form of ID to prove age and residency for purposes of o HB 2880 - Relating to provide special outdoor recreational opportunities for eligible veterans HB 3019 - Clarifying circumstances under which a person may possess certain firearms while afield hunting HB 3064 - Allowing the general public to use certain certified timberland for certain recreational purposes for that property to maintain it HB 3095 - Relating to discounts at state parks for elderly and disabled persons HB 4197 - Relating to the development of corporate sponsorships for state parks and recreational areas HB 4301 - Allowing limited reciprocal use of hunting and fishing licenses with the Commonwealth of Kentucky HB 4325 - Establishing the state parks instant lottery scratch-off game HB 4330 - Providing for the posting of unenclosed lands to prohibit hunting, trapping or fishing HB 4476 - Allowing any person who was born in West Virginia to purchase a resident lifetime hunting, trapping or fishing license HB 4533 - Providing a fee discount for certain nonresident hunting, fishing and trapping licenses for native nonresidents HB 4609 - Restricting swimming on Tygart Lake in the Pleasant Creek Wildlife Management Area to within fifty feet of the boat launch area

Professions and Occupations (5 Bills)HB 2003 - Providing an employee the right to decline to work more than forty hours in a workweek HB 2024 - Allowing guidance counselors to compete equally for all guidance counselor positions HB 2029 - Requiring the reporting and publication of all compensation, including contingent compensation, paid to lobbyists for all lobbying HB 2047 - Verifying legal employment status of workers HB 2128 - Providing railroad employees have the right to review and copy the contents of their personnel file HB 2175 - Requiring certain licensees to take continuing education in green building HB 2241 - Adding pharmacist and pharmacy to the definition of "health care provider" as used in the Medical Professional Liability Act HB 2250 - Providing a loan forgiveness program for nurses, social workers, dentists and hygienists HB 2276 - Providing a tax incentive to dental practitioners to perform dental services at no cost to indigent patients HB 2280 - Requiring persons who are not members of the American Association of Professional Landmen to have two years or more of experience HB 2385 - Relating to the requirements for and scope of practice for registered veterinary technicians HB 2438 - Certified Legal Assistant Act HB 2440 - Adopting guidelines to permit pharmacists to prescribe medications HB 2775 - Abolishing the Board of Barbers and Cosmetologists HB 2791 - Exempting licensed surveyors from liability for defamation or slander of title HB 2821 - Relating to the Board of Barbers and Cosmetologists HB 3144 - Relating to supervision of works by a sanitary board HB 4163 - Requiring outpatient surgical facilities to meet the same facility and surgical standards as ambulatory surgical facilities HB 4164 - Relating to professional licensure, certification or registration of persons and spouses of persons on military active duty outsi HB 4199 - Allowing the mandatory federal background check of registered professional nurses to be done by a name search HB 4224 - Making changes to the definition of electrical contractor HB 4232 - Relating to minimum salary supplement and educational expense reimbursement for professional personnel HB 4312 - Creating a certification for emergency medical technician-industrial HB 4354 - Requiring the reporting and publication of all compensation, including contingent compensation, paid to lobbyists HB 4410 - Redefining auctioneer exceptions HB 4413 - Requiring that athletic trainers be licensed HB 4418 - Career ladder for direct service workers HB 4467 - Relating to exempting individuals employed by a county board of education from plumbing licensing requirements while performing pl HB 4477 - Relating to the practice of psychology HB 4538 - Relating to the Board of Dentistry HB 4574 - Authorizing the Board of Registration for Professional Engineers to renew certificates on a biennial basis

Public Employees (23 Bills)HB 2036 - Relating to itinerant status for school service personnel HB 2052 - Prohibiting the naming of a publicly funded building, road, structure or project for a living elected public official HB 2252 - Authorizing the equal pay commission to study the "glass ceiling" concept HB 2281 - Increasing the pay grade of cafeteria managers HB 2319 - Allowing state employees to take paid leave to attend parent-teacher conference for their children HB 2376 - Increasing salary increments paid to principals and assistant principals HB 2377 - Increasing the amount of annual and incremental salary increases for eligible state employees HB 2425 - Providing an increase to all annuitants of the Public Employees Retirement and Teachers Retirement Systems HB 2476 - Encouraging public officials to display the national motto on all public property and public buildings HB 2557 - Extending or clarifying protections under the state's Whistle-Blower Law HB 2904 - Creating a State Employee Ombudsman HB 3083 - Relating to definitions used in the Public Employees Retirement System HB 3105 - Granting all public employees a $1,000 per year permanent pay increase HB 4144 - Increasing the salaries of state public employees, teachers and service personnel HB 4150 - Allowing the state to pay its employees every two weeks instead of twice per month HB 4203 - Allowing a grievant a reasonable time for a representative to be summoned and appear, and clarifying that participation in grievan HB 4254 - Providing that certain state employees may be granted a leave of absence with pay during a declared state of emergency HB 4363 - Creating an informal dispute resolution process available to behavioral health providers HB 4386 - Establishing seniority rights for public employees HB 4520 - Increasing the amount of annual and incremental salary increases for eligible state employees

Public Service Commission (24 Bills)HB 2042 - Providing for removal and election of Public Service Commissioners HB 2176 - Relating to interconnection and net-metering of customer-generators of renewable energy HB 2323 - West Virginia Energy Efficiency Act HB 2358 - Stopping accelerated rate recovery because of adverse effects of constructing transmission facilities and revising the definition HB 2803 - Requiring electric utilities to implement integrated resource plans HB 2925 - Relating to alternative fuel initiatives HB 3008 - Requiring the three commissioners of the Public Service Commission be elected from the three congressional districts for six-year HB 4121 - Requiring that the chairperson of the Public Service Commission be elected on a nonpartisan ballot HB 4127 - Relating to appointment of Public Service Commissioners HB 4165 - Authorizing the Public Service Commission to regulate broadband services HB 4530 - Adding additional requirements for notification relating to industrial facilities emergency event notification and access, and cre

Public Service Districts (4 Bills)HB 2790 - Relating to public service district board members HB 4129 - Relating to the sale of real property by the Division of Highways HB 4321 - Requiring written notice from public service boards to users of delinquency and date of termination and discontinuance of service HB 4546 - Relating to rural community access to municipal or public service district water supplies

Railroads (17 Bills)HB 2606 - Permitting the State Rail Authority to set the salary of the executive director HB 4157 - Extending the cessation of deposits into the Special Railroad and Intermodal Enhancement Fund

Real Property (5 Bills)HB 2041 - Changing the time for periodic valuations and assessments of real and personal property HB 2067 - Providing misdemeanor criminal penalty for failing to comply with law regarding sale, lease or disposition of municipal property HB 2077 - Providing a three percent cap on any increase in assessment on real property that is the primary residence HB 2096 - Relating to the remediation and disclosure of clandestine drug laboratories HB 2104 - Allowing quarterly payment of real and personal property taxes HB 2120 - Prohibiting the publication of the consideration paid for the sale of real estate or the amount of any lien on the real property s HB 2156 - Providing criminal penalties for the intentional defacement of public and private property due to graffiti HB 2449 - Requiring a landlord address issues of the accumulation of moisture and the growth of mold HB 2450 - Granting licensed real estate appraisers access to commercial or residential review documents HB 2488 - Real Property Transfer on Death Act HB 2574 - Relating to the right of an owner of real estate to set aside a tax deed HB 2927 - Relating to publication of list of delinquent real estate HB 2947 - Permitting surface owners to purchase the mineral interests that lay below the property in certain circumstances HB 2971 - Creating the Uniform Real Property Electronic Recording Act HB 2984 - Relating to assessment of real property HB 3010 - Limiting the use of credit information in connection with the declination and termination of property insurance HB 3048 - Authorizing county commissions to hear actions for ejectment and other actions HB 3052 - Exempting from excise taxation the transfer of real property from an individual to a wholly-owned subsidiary HB 3140 - Providing a procedure for the reassessment and classification of Class III or IV real property transferred to persons to be used a HB 4002 - Relating to the computation of local share for public school support purposes HB 4116 - Permitting certain owners of residential real estate a limited exemption from certain licensing requirements HB 4129 - Relating to the sale of real property by the Division of Highways HB 4226 - Prohibiting damage to property of railroads, public utilities and certain production storage and distribution facilities HB 4315 - Relating to assessment of real property HB 4468 - Authorizing local units of government to adopt property assessed clean energy programs HB 4499 - Updating the Uniform Common Interest Ownership Act

Redistricting (5 Bills)HB 2742 - Providing for the redistricting office of the Joint Committee on Government and Finance to propose redistricting plans during cens HB 4118 - Redistricting of the Senate into thirty four single senatorial districts

Regulations (6 Bills)HB 2106 - Making English the official language of West Virginia HB 2291 - Relating to the denial of course credits for unexcused absences in school HB 2362 - Relating to water pollution control

Religious Organizations (7 Bills)HB 2034 - Exempting children receiving an exemption from compulsory school attendance in favor of church school from standardized testing re HB 2098 - Exempting existing churches from paying tax on propane and other forms of heating oil HB 2234 - Exempting nonprofit, tax exempt corporations or organizations affiliated with a church from consumer sales and service tax HB 2873 - Requiring that public schools provide facilities for students of all faiths and religions to have a place of fellowship, prayer an HB 3009 - Schoolchildren's Religious Liberties Act HB 4134 - Establishing the West Virginia Religious Freedom Restoration Act HB 4135 - Designating the first Thursday in May the West Virginia Day of Prayer

Retirement (And Related Subheadings) (7 Bills)HB 2013 - Preventing a reduction in the annuity of a person who retires with disability retirement at age sixty-five

Retirement -- Education Personnel (2 Bills)HB 2018 - Requiring racetracks who are licensed to operate video lottery terminals pay a fee of one thousand dollars for each machine and th HB 2099 - Increasing benefits of retired state personnel and retired teachers HB 2202 - Exempting income received by retired public employees and retired teachers through their state retirement systems from personal in HB 2203 - Providing a one-time supplement to retired public employees and teachers seventy years of age or older HB 2266 - Providing a one-time bonus payable in July of every year for retired public school teachers and state retirees HB 2334 - Repealing the one hundred forty day limitation that a retired school teacher may teach in public schools HB 2341 - Providing a cost-of-living provision for certain persons retired HB 2344 - Relating to the State Teachers Retirement System HB 2359 - Relating to the Public Employees Retirement System and the Teachers Retirement System; and providing a one-time supplement for ann HB 2425 - Providing an increase to all annuitants of the Public Employees Retirement and Teachers Retirement Systems HB 4221 - Permitting teachers under the State Teachers Retirement System to teach college level courses without loss of benefits

Retirement -- Public Employees (2 Bills)HB 2099 - Increasing benefits of retired state personnel and retired teachers HB 2202 - Exempting income received by retired public employees and retired teachers through their state retirement systems from personal in HB 2203 - Providing a one-time supplement to retired public employees and teachers seventy years of age or older HB 2249 - Requiring spouse approval of election of annuity option HB 2266 - Providing a one-time bonus payable in July of every year for retired public school teachers and state retirees HB 2275 - Reinstating service credit to certain members of the Public Employees Retirement System HB 2339 - Removing the armed conflict requirement before state employees may receive credit for time served in the Armed Forces HB 2341 - Providing a cost-of-living provision for certain persons retired HB 2370 - Providing that municipal employees may receive up to two years of retirement service credit for military service HB 2425 - Providing an increase to all annuitants of the Public Employees Retirement and Teachers Retirement Systems HB 2484 - Exempting the first twenty thousand dollars of state pensions and social security benefits from West Virginia personal income tax HB 2854 - Relating to reentry into the Public Employees Retirement System by members of the Legislature HB 3014 - Relating to pension benefits exempt from state income taxation HB 3083 - Relating to definitions used in the Public Employees Retirement System HB 4117 - Eliminating eligibility for participation in the Public Employees Retirement System for those newly elected or appointed as member HB 4364 - Relating to the Public Employees Retirement System HB 4375 - West Virginia Voluntary Employee Retirement Accounts Program HB 4428 - Providing that Mental Hygiene Commissioners are employees under the Public Employees Retirement System HB 4450 - Relating to repurchasing prior service credit in the Public Employees Retirement System

Retirement (And Related Subheadings) (5 Bills)HB 2031 - Relating to certain members of the Legislature and certain service by members of the Legislature HB 2302 - Providing a personal income tax modification for certain retirees who are in long-term care facilities HB 2330 - Permitting a retired police officer to be hired as a chief of police and continue to receive retirement benefits HB 3014 - Relating to pension benefits exempt from state income taxation HB 4322 - Establishing a retired teachers instant lottery scratch-off game HB 4345 - Relating to the West Virginia State Police Retirement System HB 4349 - Clarifying retirement dependent child scholarship and burial benefits under a Qualified Domestic Relations Order HB 4534 - Create a Historic Resort Hotel Employee Retirement Fund HB 4545 - Relating to personal income tax

Roads and Highways (23 Bills)HB 2025 - Terminating tolls on the West Virginia Turnpike before 2020 HB 2052 - Prohibiting the naming of a publicly funded building, road, structure or project for a living elected public official HB 2093 - Requiring the Commissioner of Highways to require bonds be posted in connection with major construction, mineral extraction and in HB 2107 - Exempting county school boards of education school buses from paying tolls for transit over the West Virginia Turnpike or any park HB 2126 - Providing a clear zone in the event that a vehicle is stopped along a highway HB 2151 - Requiring the West Virginia Commissioner of Highways to use recycled materials in construction or maintenance of roads and highway HB 2157 - Relating to signage for construction zones HB 2279 - Relating to towing companies notifying the DMV of abandoned vehicles HB 2320 - Giving local authorities the authority to decrease the speed limit on streets and highways where school buses travel in its jurisd HB 2472 - Increasing the speed limit from 60 mph to 70 mph on a specific section of I-77 HB 2976 - Creating a fund for pothole repair contributed to by private businesses or entities HB 3002 - Requiring the Parkways Authority to provide free daily toll passes for veterans under certain circumstances HB 3109 - Prohibiting a person from driving in the passing lane of a highway when not passing another vehicle under certain circumstances HB 4156 - Electronic Toll Collection Act HB 4219 - Auditing the Division of Highways HB 4222 - Providing the Parkways Authority with the power to issue $500 million worth of bonds HB 4242 - Increasing gross weight limitations on certain roads in Brooke County HB 4263 - Providing for the transfer of ownership, operation and maintenance of certain assets of the West Virginia Parkways Authority to th HB 4329 - Authorizing county commissions to regulate parking on roads, ways, streets, avenues, drives and the like where it is needed in c HB 4371 - Creating a crime for theft of a traffic sign or traffic signal HB 4407 - Establishing when it is permissible to operate a motor vehicle in the left lane on a controlled-access highway HB 4502 - Relating to use of state road rights-of-way and adjacent areas

Rule Making Authority (8 Bills)HB 2190 - Requiring the West Virginia Secondary School Activities Commission to propose legislative rules concerning concussions HB 2876 - Requiring that legislative rules be reviewed five years after initial approval by the Legislative Rule-Making Review Committee and HB 4175 - West Virginia Small Business Emergency Act HB 4295 - Requiring uniform enforcement of environmental rules HB 4358 - Requiring an agency to review rules every four years and, when necessary, provide revisions HB 4457 - Authorizing a legislative rule for the Council of Community and Technical College Education regarding WV EDGE program HB 4502 - Relating to use of state road rights-of-way and adjacent areas HB 4508 - Proposing changes to the state Administrative Act and rules

Safety (86 Bills)HB 2002 - Providing for the use of neck braces by football players HB 2012 - Including a clearer definition of hazing within West Virginia's antihazing statute HB 2021 - Requiring the Mine Foreman Examiner review the employment history and certify that the applicant for the position of underground a HB 2054 - The Healthy and Safe Workplace Act HB 2066 - Requiring the posting of material data safety sheets and documentation of fracking fluid components HB 2073 - Requiring that permanent and temporary battery charging stations in mines be ventilated directly to the return on a separate split HB 2190 - Requiring the West Virginia Secondary School Activities Commission to propose legislative rules concerning concussions HB 2232 - Requiring the Superintendent of the State Police to implement a plan to increase the number of troopers HB 2245 - Requiring the use of helmets by skateboarders HB 2437 - Exempting of certain public safety training courses from payment of consumer sales tax HB 2547 - Repealing provisions establishing a system for the issuance of personal safety orders HB 2757 - Private cause of action for the humane destruction of a dog HB 2954 - Requiring that members of the Mine Safety Technology Task Force are paid the same compensation as members of the Legislature HB 2996 - Relating to smoke detectors in one-and two-family dwellings HB 3131 - Providing that all persons have the right to be free from violence HB 4303 - Oil and Gas Drilling Workplace Safety Act HB 4353 - Requiring completion of an Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) approved 10-hour construction safety program prior HB 4380 - Making the Department of Corrections and the Department of Health, and their respective workplaces, subject to the Occupational Sa HB 4382 - Establishing the Legislative Oversight Commission on Energy Workers Safety HB 4392 - Regulating persons who perform work on heating, ventilating and cooling systems and fire dampers HB 4449 - Including proximity detection systems and cameras used on continuous mining machines and underground haulage equipment for tax cre HB 4515 - Preventing and mitigating catastrophes involving toxic substances HB 4551 - Relating to methane protections in underground mines HB 4571 - Requiring the Commissioner of Labor to conduct a study on workplace accidents at construction sites HB 4583 - Relating to the regulation of dilapidated buildings

Salaries (7 Bills)HB 2028 - Relating to the employment and compensation of school service personnel HB 2029 - Requiring the reporting and publication of all compensation, including contingent compensation, paid to lobbyists for all lobbying HB 2035 - Providing full daily rate of pay for substitute teachers if they have in excess of ten instructional days in the same school year HB 2075 - Increasing compensation of membership of the West Virginia State Police HB 2097 - Providing for career development and establishing a pay scale for Alcohol Beverage Commission inspectors, enforcement agents and s HB 2147 - Establishing a minimum number of troopers to provide basic law enforcement services, and providing members of the West Virginia St HB 2226 - Requiring that State Police officers be compensated for time when they are required to be on standby and providing a stipend for h HB 2236 - Providing a salary supplement for providers of medicaid eligible services in the public schools HB 2252 - Authorizing the equal pay commission to study the "glass ceiling" concept HB 2281 - Increasing the pay grade of cafeteria managers HB 2335 - Increasing compensation for conservation officers HB 2343 - Increasing the educational increment for school service personnel HB 2376 - Increasing salary increments paid to principals and assistant principals HB 2377 - Increasing the amount of annual and incremental salary increases for eligible state employees HB 2575 - Setting West Virginia prevailing wage rates by county HB 2576 - Repealing requirements that prevailing wages be paid in connection with the construction of public improvements HB 2606 - Permitting the State Rail Authority to set the salary of the executive director HB 2752 - Exempting construction performed on behalf of educational authorities from prevailing wage requirements HB 2753 - Establishing prevailing hourly rates to be used in connection with the construction of public improvements HB 2799 - Allowing county commissions broad discretion in setting the salaries of county elected officials HB 2839 - Relating to payment of employees separated from payroll before paydays HB 2887 - Increasing compensation, after July 1, 2013, of elected county officials and county commissioners for each class of county HB 2954 - Requiring that members of the Mine Safety Technology Task Force are paid the same compensation as members of the Legislature HB 3015 - Providing an increase in compensation for natural resources police officers HB 3050 - Relating to salary increases for teachers based on residential housing costs HB 3096 - Increasing the compensation caps for secretary-clerks and case coordinators in the family court system HB 3105 - Granting all public employees a $1,000 per year permanent pay increase HB 4119 - Reducing compensation of state legislators HB 4144 - Increasing the salaries of state public employees, teachers and service personnel HB 4196 - Requiring the Workforce Investment Council to provide information and guidance to local workforce investment boards that would ena HB 4239 - Relating to counties HB 4256 - Amending the annual salary schedule for members of the state police HB 4261 - Relating to teacher and school service personnel salary increases HB 4270 - Relating to salaries of service employees of the state camp and conference center known as Cedar Lakes Conference Center HB 4408 - Relating to salaries and raises for employees within the West Virginia State Police Forensic Laboratory HB 4430 - Removing the compensation caps entirely for secretary-clerks and case coordinators HB 4520 - Increasing the amount of annual and incremental salary increases for eligible state employees HB 4613 - Creating the West Virginia Jobs Incentive Act HB 4615 - Relating to wage payment and collection

Secretary of State (4 Bills)HB 2019 - Relating to elections HB 4440 - Relating to the filing of financial statements with the Secretary of State HB 4512 - Regarding exemptions for businesses HB 4525 - Eliminating late fees charged by the Secretary of State HB 4553 - Authorizing the Secretary of State to prosecute election violations

Senior Citizens (8 Bills)HB 2007 - Establishing a program for reprogramming cellular telephones and distributing to seniors for making emergency calls HB 2267 - Creating the Senior Farmers' Market Nutrition Program Fund HB 2268 - Increasing the maximum personal income tax exemption for persons over the age of sixty-five and for persons who are totally disabl HB 2274 - Raising the maximum personal income tax exemption for persons over the age of sixty-five and for persons who are totally disabled HB 2855 - Permitting persons sixty years of age and older to hunt deer with a crossbow HB 2856 - Prohibiting discrimination based upon age or sexual orientation HB 2878 - Clarifying that a valid West Virginia identification card is an acceptable form of ID to prove age and residency for purposes of o HB 3030 - Relating to Class XS senior resident lifetime licenses HB 3078 - Raising the maximum personal income tax exemption for persons over the age of sixty-five and for persons who are totally disabled HB 3095 - Relating to discounts at state parks for elderly and disabled persons

Social Security (36 Bills)HB 2284 - Exempting social security benefits from West Virginia personal income HB 2484 - Exempting the first twenty thousand dollars of state pensions and social security benefits from West Virginia personal income tax HB 2793 - Relating to calculation of West Virginia adjusted gross income for personal income tax purposes HB 4133 - Relating to calculation of West Virginia adjusted gross income for personal income tax purposes HB 4592 - Exempting Social Security benefits and certain pension benefits from West Virginia personal income taxation

Taxation -- Consumers Sales Tax (4 Bills)HB 2072 - Creating an annual exemption for clothing, footwear and school supplies HB 2119 - Imposing an excise tax on the sale or rental of obscene materials HB 2150 - Taxing of utility terrain vehicles HB 2180 - Exempting from the sales and use tax special equipment installed in a motor vehicle for the use of a person with physical disabili HB 2231 - Reducing the wholesale tax on heating fuel, off road fuels, kerosene and propane used for home heating purposes or off road use HB 2234 - Exempting nonprofit, tax exempt corporations or organizations affiliated with a church from consumer sales and service tax HB 2437 - Exempting of certain public safety training courses from payment of consumer sales tax HB 2921 - Providing an exemption on sales of motor vehicles using natural gas or dual purpose motor vehicles using a combination of gasoline HB 2993 - Allowing counties and municipalities to levy a sales tax on food and beverages sold at restaurants HB 3033 - Relating to taxes on motor fuels, aviation fuels and consumer sales and service HB 4155 - Suspending payments of the refundable exemption to the West Virginia consumers sales and service tax to the State Road Fund for fi HB 4158 - Providing accelerated payment of consumers sales and service and use tax and employee withholding taxes HB 4272 - Exempting sales of precious metals from the sales tax HB 4416 - Exempting certified professional estimator services from consumers sales tax

Taxation -- Motor Vehicles (41 Bills)HB 4556 - Relating to the valuation of antique motor vehicles and classic motor vehicles for purposes of ad valorem property taxes HB 4557 - Requiring that motor vehicles, except leased motor vehicles, used in a business be assessed for taxation in the tax district where

Taxation -- Personal & Corporate Income Tax (5 Bills)HB 2018 - Requiring racetracks who are licensed to operate video lottery terminals pay a fee of one thousand dollars for each machine and th HB 2104 - Allowing quarterly payment of real and personal property taxes HB 2116 - Income tax deduction for gifts to West Virginia charities HB 2117 - Income tax exemption for veterans who locate in West Virginia following separation from service HB 2174 - Reducing federal adjusted gross income for recent graduates of higher education institutions HB 2202 - Exempting income received by retired public employees and retired teachers through their state retirement systems from personal in HB 2204 - Allowing a credit against state personal income tax for the purchase of a new wood or pellet stove HB 2217 - Reducing the corporate net income tax rate to five point nine percent effective the first day of July, two thousand eleven HB 2268 - Increasing the maximum personal income tax exemption for persons over the age of sixty-five and for persons who are totally disabl HB 2271 - Retaining nursing educators HB 2274 - Raising the maximum personal income tax exemption for persons over the age of sixty-five and for persons who are totally disabled HB 2276 - Providing a tax incentive to dental practitioners to perform dental services at no cost to indigent patients HB 2284 - Exempting social security benefits from West Virginia personal income HB 2302 - Providing a personal income tax modification for certain retirees who are in long-term care facilities HB 2307 - Reducing the corporation net income tax rate HB 2369 - Providing a personal income tax exemption for living organ donors HB 2373 - Authorizing a refundable tax credit based upon the federal earned income tax credit HB 2402 - Exempting disabled veterans who have suffered a hundred percent total and permanent service-connected disability from state incom HB 2422 - Providing an additional decreasing modification reducing federal adjusted gross income for income earned by certain military perso HB 2484 - Exempting the first twenty thousand dollars of state pensions and social security benefits from West Virginia personal income tax HB 2745 - Exempting undergraduate students attending state colleges or universities for the first two years postgraduation, from the payment HB 2793 - Relating to calculation of West Virginia adjusted gross income for personal income tax purposes HB 2903 - Creating the Economic Fairness Act of 2013 HB 2950 - Providing cable operators and satellite television providers a tax credit for offering consumers ala carte service HB 2958 - Permitting deed of trust or mortgage interest paid on taxpayers' personal residences to be used as a deduction for personal income HB 3014 - Relating to pension benefits exempt from state income taxation HB 3078 - Raising the maximum personal income tax exemption for persons over the age of sixty-five and for persons who are totally disabled HB 4133 - Relating to calculation of West Virginia adjusted gross income for personal income tax purposes HB 4136 - Educational Equality Act HB 4158 - Providing accelerated payment of consumers sales and service and use tax and employee withholding taxes HB 4159 - Updating the meaning of federal adjusted gross income and certain other terms HB 4174 - Updating the meaning of federal adjusted gross income and certain other terms used in the West Virginia Corporation Net Income Tax HB 4276 - Providing a credit against personal income tax for classroom teachers for nonreimbursed costs of supplies HB 4314 - Providing a $500 credit for certain members of volunteer fire departments against state personal income tax HB 4326 - Relating to nursing education faculty HB 4356 - Creating a West Virginia personal income tax modification reducing federal adjusted gross income for persons who choose to spay or HB 4387 - Providing a $500 credit for certain members of volunteer fire departments against state personal income tax HB 4403 - Creating a tax credit for certain businesses that locate within a twenty-mile radius of a Hatfield-McCoy recreation area trail hea HB 4419 - Creating the West Virginia Children with Autism Trust Fund HB 4506 - Relating to personal income tax rates HB 4545 - Relating to personal income tax HB 4561 - Relating to the rate of tax on personal income, including bonuses earned and increases on salary HB 4573 - Relating to additional modification reducing federal adjusted gross income relating to tolls HB 4586 - Adding the taxable income or loss of any corporation that is a member of a unitary group and that is incorporated in certain juris HB 4592 - Exempting Social Security benefits and certain pension benefits from West Virginia personal income taxation HB 4613 - Creating the West Virginia Jobs Incentive Act

Taxation -- Property (2 Bills)HB 2006 - Permitting counties, county boards of education and municipalities to impose an additional levy HB 2038 - Clarifying the notice and service requirements for a notice to redeem to be provided to the delinquent taxpayer at the mailing ad HB 2077 - Providing a three percent cap on any increase in assessment on real property that is the primary residence HB 2104 - Allowing quarterly payment of real and personal property taxes HB 2182 - Creating the West Virginia Innovation Free-Trade Business Technology Property Valuation Act and the West Virginia Innovation Free- HB 2308 - Relating to the excise tax on the privilege of transferring real property and using the tax to reimburse counties for regional jai HB 2353 - Clarifying an exception that allow sheriffs to collect property taxes in more than two installments HB 2430 - Exempting the construction or addition of active solar energy systems from real and personal property taxation HB 2444 - Capping a property tax increase resulting from an increase from the three-year reappraisal HB 2467 - Requiring the county to reimburse a property owner of expenses incurred in contesting a reappraisal HB 2486 - Limiting the amount a property reappraisal can increase HB 2574 - Relating to the right of an owner of real estate to set aside a tax deed HB 2927 - Relating to publication of list of delinquent real estate HB 2958 - Permitting deed of trust or mortgage interest paid on taxpayers' personal residences to be used as a deduction for personal income HB 3040 - Relating generally to the tax treatment of manufacturing entities HB 3056 - Providing a special method for valuation of certain wireless technology property for property taxes HB 4470 - Relating to tentative appraisals of natural resources property by the Tax Commissioner for ad valorem property tax purposes HB 4567 - Establishing a new class of property on utility rights-of- ways and easements for taxation purposes HB 4610 - Relating to valuation and assessment of property for ad valorem property taxation

Taxation (And Related Subheadings) (14 Bills)HB 2006 - Permitting counties, county boards of education and municipalities to impose an additional levy HB 2060 - Increasing the soft drinks tax HB 2435 - Relating to severance taxes collected for privilege of producing oil or natural gas HB 2474 - Authorizing tax credits for parents and legal guardians whose children are in a home schooling program HB 2578 - Creating the Good Jobs Internet Reporting Act HB 2739 - Relating to the business and occupation tax HB 2795 - Reallocating and dedicating three percent of oil and gas severance tax revenues HB 2875 - Relating to residential solar energy tax credits HB 2974 - Relating to a tax deduction allowed for capital expenditures from the corporate net income tax HB 3051 - Relating to fees charged for natural gas drilling waste fluids injected into underground injection control wells HB 3052 - Exempting from excise taxation the transfer of real property from an individual to a wholly-owned subsidiary HB 3064 - Allowing the general public to use certain certified timberland for certain recreational purposes for that property to maintain it HB 3097 - Entitling natural resource producers to the economic opportunity tax credit HB 4148 - Repealing the Strategic Research and Development Tax Credit HB 4154 - Fixing a technical error relating to the motor fuel excise tax HB 4160 - Reducing the amount deducted as an allowance for usual losses in collections for purposes of calculating local share HB 4184 - Relating to the West Virginia Tourism Development Act HB 4191 - Increasing the excise tax on cigarettes and all other tobacco products HB 4192 - Tax Credit for residents of counties impacted by water emergency HB 4247 - Permitting the Ohio County Commission to levy a special district excise tax HB 4249 - Allowing proceeds of a hotel occupancy tax not exceeding $200,000 per fiscal year to be expended for medical care and emergency se HB 4267 - Legalizing and regulating the sale and use of fireworks and creating the West Virginia Veterans Program Fund HB 4292 - Funding for substance abuse services through increased taxes on beer, wine and liquor HB 4299 - Removing the expiration date for the tax rate on eligible acute care hospitals HB 4320 - Removing the severance tax on timber HB 4334 - Creating tax credits for small business economic impact HB 4351 - Creating a review process for tax expenditures HB 4449 - Including proximity detection systems and cameras used on continuous mining machines and underground haulage equipment for tax cre HB 4456 - Relating to increasing sales and use taxes by one percent HB 4458 - Establishing the Tax Reduction Fund in the State Treasury HB 4517 - Relating to cancelling certificates of title for certain mobile and manufactured homes

Technology (3 Bills)HB 2070 - Allowing the use of traffic law photo-monitoring devices HB 2081 - Making electronic payments subject to the same fees as are currently permitted for returned checks HB 2111 - Employing best available control technology to control air pollution HB 2142 - Providing a criminal penalty for transmitting bulk electronic mail messages which are unsolicited HB 2182 - Creating the West Virginia Innovation Free-Trade Business Technology Property Valuation Act and the West Virginia Innovation Free- HB 2211 - Imposing advanced recovery fees on consumers for the purchase of electronic devices HB 2257 - Creating a publicly accessible database of information relevant to all horizontally drilled wells HB 2337 - Creating the criminal offense of online impersonation HB 2411 - Relating to development of broadband infrastructure and broadband deployment in this state HB 2966 - Relating to employment and privacy protection HB 2971 - Creating the Uniform Real Property Electronic Recording Act HB 2982 - Prohibiting the use of calculators for teaching purposes in grades K through eight HB 3056 - Providing a special method for valuation of certain wireless technology property for property taxes HB 3057 - Establishing the offense of operating a motor vehicle using a wearable computer with a head-mounted display HB 3090 - Relating to duties of the Chief Technology Officer with regard to security of government information HB 3116 - Relating to reimbursement for copies of medical records HB 3153 - Relating to retailer electronic waste collection HB 4010 - Creating the Uniform Real Property Electronic Recording Act HB 4128 - Requiring boards of examination or registration to maintain a list of disciplinary actions on a public access website HB 4165 - Authorizing the Public Service Commission to regulate broadband services HB 4281 - Relating to education reform HB 4331 - Relating to location information of an electronic device HB 4361 - Allowing members of the Legislature who are away serving in the Armed Forces to participate and vote via electronic teleconferenci HB 4395 - Internet Service Provider Accountability Act HB 4531 - Telemedicine for quality improvement and healthcare modernization act HB 4560 - Relating to reimbursement for copies of medical records

Tobacco and Tobacco Products (4 Bills)HB 4138 - Relating to the usage restrictions for tobacco and tobacco products HB 4191 - Increasing the excise tax on cigarettes and all other tobacco products HB 4237 - Prohibiting the sale, distribution and use of electronic cigarettes, vapor products and other alternative nicotine products to per HB 4362 - Prohibiting smoking in a motor vehicle when a child is present HB 4518 - Relating to penalties for underage tobacco use

Tourism (1 Bills)HB 2991 - Providing that a wine retailer may be licensed as a retail dealer in nonintoxicating beer for the limited purpose of selling nonin HB 4184 - Relating to the West Virginia Tourism Development Act HB 4187 - Dissolving the West Virginia Parkways, Economic Development and Tourism Authority and transfer its powers to the Secretary of the HB 4306 - Discontinuing the moratorium on the issuance of commercial rafting licenses on a section of the New River HB 4403 - Creating a tax credit for certain businesses that locate within a twenty-mile radius of a Hatfield-McCoy recreation area trail hea HB 4533 - Providing a fee discount for certain nonresident hunting, fishing and trapping licenses for native nonresidents

Transportation (20 Bills)HB 2289 - Requiring that transportation to and from school be provided for each child that needs or desires transportation HB 2375 - No State-Funded Transportation for Abortion Act HB 4187 - Dissolving the West Virginia Parkways, Economic Development and Tourism Authority and transfer its powers to the Secretary of the HB 4539 - Requiring motor vehicles to stop when a public transportation vehicle is stopped and receiving or dropping off passengers

Utilities (97 Bills)HB 2210 - Relating to energy efficiency for electric and gas utilities and their customers HB 2316 - Awarding credits for use of alternative and renewable energy resources HB 2358 - Stopping accelerated rate recovery because of adverse effects of constructing transmission facilities and revising the definition HB 2803 - Requiring electric utilities to implement integrated resource plans HB 4007 - Prohibiting any state entity from forcing currently owner-occupied residences to be required to participate in a public sewer HB 4129 - Relating to the sale of real property by the Division of Highways HB 4152 - Requiring all operators of the underground facilities in this state to participate in the one-call system HB 4173 - Relating to a five-year suspension on rate hikes for all utilities HB 4257 - Providing criminal penalties for the dissemination of false, misleading or deceptive information through automated telephone calls HB 4321 - Requiring written notice from public service boards to users of delinquency and date of termination and discontinuance of service HB 4328 - Requiring electric utilities to reimburse customers for expenses incurred resulting from outages caused by lack of appropriate li HB 4367 - West Virginia Energy Efficiency Resource Act HB 4527 - Creating monitoring and testing requirements for public water utilities HB 4567 - Establishing a new class of property on utility rights-of- ways and easements for taxation purposes HB 4601 - Relating to fiscal management and regulation of publicly-owned utilities

Vital Records (3 Bills)HB 2172 - Redefining the term "public record" as it is used in the Freedom of Information Act HB 2332 - Relating to confidential records HB 2473 - Requiring all state activities and records to be in English HB 2485 - Requiring health care providers to release unemancipated minor's medical records for drug testing to a parent or legal guardian wi HB 3090 - Relating to duties of the Chief Technology Officer with regard to security of government information

Water Resources (26 Bills)HB 2061 - Requiring operators to post a bond for each well and to condition the release of the bond HB 2064 - Requiring a driller or owner of a natural gas well who contaminates a groundwater aquifer to remediate the aquifer until it meets HB 2136 - Providing landowners of property adjacent to proposed well sites copies of the application, the erosion and sediment control plan HB 2254 - Requiring an emergency, temporary and permanent water supply when gas and oil operations have resulted in contamination, diminutio HB 2256 - Establishing a cradle to grave monitoring system for withdrawals of water used in the development of natural wells HB 2258 - Requiring the center of all new gas wells to be more than one thousand feet from water wells or six hundred twenty-five feet from HB 2362 - Relating to water pollution control HB 3071 - Relating to civil penalties and civil administrative penalties for violations of the Water Pollution Control Act HB 4255 - Water Resources Protection and Management Act HB 4258 - Creating a source water protection program and an industrial aboveground storage tank program to protect source water supplies and HB 4275 - Making West Virginia's Water Pollution Control Act consistent with the federal Water Pollution Act HB 4277 - Requiring registration and inventory of existing above-ground storage tanks HB 4285 - Amending the Water Resources Protection and Management Act to incorporate recommendations from the state Water Resources Managemen HB 4291 - Relating to civil penalties and civil administrative penalties for violations of the Water Pollution Control Act by coal mining HB 4306 - Discontinuing the moratorium on the issuance of commercial rafting licenses on a section of the New River HB 4527 - Creating monitoring and testing requirements for public water utilities HB 4530 - Adding additional requirements for notification relating to industrial facilities emergency event notification and access, and cre HB 4546 - Relating to rural community access to municipal or public service district water supplies HB 4572 - Creating the Citizen Enforcement of Clean Water Act

Weapons (15 Bills)HB 2459 - Permitting certain holders of concealed weapons permits to carry weapons of the grounds and buildings on the State Capitol Complex HB 2552 - Providing an exception to magistrates and municipal court judges from the requirement of having a license to carry a concealed wea HB 2560 - Providing exceptions to the prohibition of the possession of deadly weapons on premises of educational facilities HB 2787 - Permitting family court judges and magistrates to carry concealed handguns without a permit HB 2832 - Creating the "Firearm Protection Act" HB 2855 - Permitting persons sixty years of age and older to hunt deer with a crossbow HB 2869 - Providing for judges and magistrates of West Virginia Courts to carry concealed firearms HB 2894 - Allowing the Division of Corrections and Regional Jail Authority employees who are authorized to carry a weapon to carry concealed HB 2911 - Exempting records of concealed weapon license applications and issuance from disclosure under the West Virginia Freedom of Inform HB 2967 - Prohibiting the publication of the identities of persons who have been issued licenses to carry a concealed deadly weapon HB 4166 - Exempting municipal court judges from fees for application and license to carry concealed weapons HB 4186 - Relating to the procedures for issuing a concealed weapon license HB 4200 - Relating to possession of concealed deadly weapons in certain buildings owned by the state HB 4250 - Relating to exceptions to prohibitions against carrying concealed handguns and reciprocity agreements for concealed carry HB 4271 - Relating to firearms and concealed firearms licenses HB 4310 - Making gun permits and applications confidential except for law enforcement purposes HB 4441 - Relating to dangerous weapons HB 4472 - Relating to the right to bear arms